Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.