I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.

Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.