Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

A good book is an education of the heart.