The first time I saw E. T. , the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E. T.
Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true. I believe that, by the grace of God, men will awake presently and be men again, and colour and laughter and splendid living will return to a grey civilisation. But that will only come true because a few men will believe in it, and fight for it, and fight in its name against everything that sneers and snarls at that ideal.
If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.
In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.
I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.
I have hitherto followed the lines marked out by the Theist in his attempt to prove that there exists a mind behind natural phenomena, and that the universe as we have it is, at least generally, an evidence of a plan designed by this mind. I have also pointed out that the only datum for such a conclusion is the universe we know. We must take that as a starting point. We can get neither behind it nor beyond it. We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been.
The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.