The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.

Kill two birds with one stone, feed the homeless to the hungry.

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.