In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.