I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.
I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.
When something is over, it is over.
Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate. . . Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.
We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
I wish I knew how we achieve the goal of world peace. My bumper sticker reads 'Just Another Version of You. ' The sooner we agree that we're just other versions of each other - we human beings - the sooner we will find some sense of world peace.
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
My life is really precious. I don't want to spend it watching ambient TV that just drifts through you. I've got better things to do.
Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These relationships are complex and have long histories. Lifetime habits of avoiding being really present with each other may exist in many of them. Family members, for instance, might want to support you, but will not necessarily know how to genuinely listen or be present with you in a way that is enlivening. . . . Even with the best intentions, it can be very difficult to get beyond the past and into the Now.