America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
I wanted to write a story about a future where everyone has a secret identity, in part because the Internet no longer exists.
A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?
I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.
In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.
Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.
I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
To die is one thing. How much worse to know that all the life that ever existed on this planet, and all it ever achieved, was to be obliterated?
Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.
