It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

My tastes are Viennese.

When a black person kills a black person, the media ignores it completely.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.

I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.

You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No thats wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope thats worse. This is a day.

I think I'd like to play more happy roles because I haven't done too many of those. I think I'd like to do an action film; something with a harness would be fun.

If it wasn't for women, I wouldn't be here. I'm a mamma's boy at heart. I love my mom. I have the deepest, utmost respect for women.

I like to maintain my collection as a provocative collection that makes people think. While certainly my stamp will be visible on Black Fleece, it is meant for a wider audience.

That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.

The real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new commodities.

I like ungroomed men. The relaxed look. I don't like fussy guys. Just shower and use deodorant.

There's never been a better time to let the leaves of mediocrity fall from your tree of life.

Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?

A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

My look is relaxed, and while I love fashion, I don't obsess about it. I don't have set rules when it comes to dressing, and I don't mind where my clothes are from.

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

Importantly, companies are using social media to do things that go way beyond just chatting up existing customers on Facebook. Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.'