I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.
Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. We haven't been there yet. We haven't discovered that yet. Science fiction hasn't happened.
Life is not only knowing what you want but what you'll settle for.