Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

Yuri's Night is a world celebration for everyone who's interested in a human presence in space - without concern for politics, the Cold War, countries that do and don't have space programs.

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

You don't kill your way to peace.

If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.