I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.
It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible.
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.
Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.
When people don't believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.
There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.
Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.