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"We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were astonished every day."

"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars."

"The future is made of the same stuff as the present."

"Desire and hope will push us on toward the future."

"It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true."

"As far as the future for the Showtime episodes that have already aired, we are sold into syndication so we'll be appearing primarily on the Fox syndicated networks and then eventually the SCI FI Channel. So, we'll be around for a while."

"Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no danger, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third."
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"I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop."


"You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that."


"Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good."


"It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue."


"I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance."


"But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in Rio Bravo."


"When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel."


"You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height."
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