We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been th...
The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public healt...
I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous per...
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history...
It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and wor...
I believe that if we think back to the period from F.D.R. through, let us say, Bush I, until the end of the Cold War, we lived through an artificial period in which American interests and European interests essentially dovetailed.
Life is short unless agony is long.
Life is too short not to look beyond it.
I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best.
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
Most of my short stories are fantasy.
I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest.
Life is too short when you think of the length of death
Life is too short to read books that I'm not enjoying.
I guess short films have a bright future... The advantage is budget.
Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.
Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.
