The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.