Ray Kinsella: It's okay, honey. I... I was just talking to the cornfield.
Ray Kinsella: I have just created something totally illogical.
Karin Kinsella: Daddy? Ray Kinsella: In a minute, Karin! Karin Kinsella: There's a man out there, on your lawn.
Winston Zeddemore: Ray. If someone asks if you are a god, you say, "yes!"
Ray Charles: You told me to find my own voice.
Ray Castro: [about Helena and Arnie] They talk like they're conspiring to conspire.
If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.
Jesus was humble when He walked this earth. He had all power, yet used all meekness.
I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.
Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.