The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.