The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.
I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.
The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)
One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.
I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
I have a day job, which means my family isn't dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.
I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
