I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.
It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.
Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.
Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.
My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have sung our sad and warm songs together.
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back.
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
