Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.
It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.
We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.
'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S. S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.
Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"
Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
I could never hate anyone I knew.
Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like. . . I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.
Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
I'm not through with you yet. Are you prepared to accept your punishment?" I nodded reluctantly. I wasn't sure what a vampire's punishment might be. But I was ready to find out. "I sentence you to a thousand kisses," he said. "Can I begin now?