The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence but an optimist because of will.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable when you don't know what's coming at you.

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres the same lively generous intelligence suffusing all he did.