Success is not winning the World Cup. It may be a goal in your mind but success is having a team that is improving all the time.
Anybody who has political ambition has an Achilles heel.
I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.
I think the level of devotion some sci-fi fans display turns other people off.
On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.
I've been acting for years and years, at prep school - school plays, that kind of thing. That was always very high on my agenda. I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn't considered an option. You couldn't get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.
I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.
But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.
America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago. And immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20 or 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.
You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people. Until this dissatisfaction comes over you-you know what I'm talking about. Then you become moody, can even repulse people who are close to you, even people who love you, you know why. Those are bad times when everything goes cold, and they follow the times of great love.