Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure and the generation of additional surplus which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour ' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.