I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.
When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know. . . a regular scientist just was no one.
One person's craziness is another person's reality.
Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.
Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
For me, fantasy has always been a means of exploring reality: it explores the fact that your internal life, your dreams and the weird images and the things that come to you are things that are actually important tools for dealing with real issues.
It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage concepts of sin has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion.
If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi. . . in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.
Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.
The truth has a way of changing people's plans.