In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I’m often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test...

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

The trick is the paradox – turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all...

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and...

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.

The contest took place at Dexter Park, before a vast crowd of spectators, the majority of whom looked to see the Nationals have almost a walk-over.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes – sometimes whole sequences – that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn’t made it into...

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.

Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man...

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

One minute you’re listening to ones idea of what they think you ought to be and then the next thing, you start listening to yourself.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound… to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be...

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.

Night hath a thousand eyes.

You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don’t like to see only one screenwriter’s name. It’s much better if you’ve got four or five.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

I have not come up with anything original. It needs a better brain than mine! I have done what I can do in taking Dawkins’ idea and extending it.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America’s youth.

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by...

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

They held it their duty to live but for their country.

For a moment, nothing happened.Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

I prefer doing original scripts because I totally control the story – it’s all mine. Films don’t work like that but television does.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

The word pessimism was a polemical word – it described an attitude of general despair, which was supposed to color opinions and assessments of facts.

A clear conscience is a sure card.

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it’s going to be about something and it does...

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That’s not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of...

Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

Man as a pure animal does not exist.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.