The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.
That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
I am very cautious, and there are not too many decisions I've not discussed with my parents, whether that be about my career or away from the field.
I wrote about scenarios that I was going through and then disguised them.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.
Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.
'Star Trek' is about a bunch of disparate people and what they're capable of when they work together.
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.
From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.
Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.
Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.
The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth.
I knew I wasn't going to be a scientist; I knew that early. When they started talking about dissecting frogs, I knew I wasn't going to be a scientist.
