The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.