It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'

You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff.'