It's Almost Always Dangerous To Be Right

The Avalanche Of Time Sweeps Everything Before It. Every Individual Instant Hurtles Into Oblivion, Drowning Out The Obliteration Of The Instant Immediately Preceding It, And Then It Too Disappears Under The Onslaught Of The Next And The Next And The Next. When The Avalanche Has Shuddered Past For A Long Enough Time, The Perception Of The Past Evolves. Distant Events Grow Beyond Mere History And Take On The Weight Of Legend.

My Approach To 'star Trek' Was, 'i Know Science Fiction, And I Know Screen Writing.' That Was Very Arrogant Of Me, But You Really Need To Be A Little Bit Arrogant To Think That What You Have To Say Is Good Enough To Justify The Expense Of Hundreds Of Thousands - Now Millions Of Dollars - To Make An Episode Of The Tv Show.

The Single Most Important Lesson Of Effective Communication Is This: Focus On Clarity. Concentrate On Precisions. Don’t Worry About Constructing Beautiful Sentences. Beauty Comes From Meaning, Not Language. Accuracy Is The Most Effective Style Of All.

Something Went Klunk. Like A Nickel Dropping In A Soda Machine. One Of Those Small Insights That Explains Everything. This Was Puberty For These Boys. Adolescence. The First Date, The First Kiss, The First Chance To Hold Hands With Someone Special. Delayed, Postponed, A Decade's Worth Of Longing--while Everybody Around You Celebrates Life, You Pretend, Suppress, Inhibit, Deprive Yourself Of You Own Joy--but Finally Ultimately, Eventually, You Find A Place Where You Can Have A Taste Of Everything Denied.

I've Always Felt That Anyone Who Wants To Talk About My Private Life Is Only Demonstrating The Paucity Of His/her Imagination When There Are So Many More Important And Exciting Things To Discuss.