Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week



"There is only one language. One law. One people. There is no war. No hunger. The strong do not victimize the helpless. We are civilized, but we have lost something. You are all...so much alive, so different. I will miss the cooks and the dancing and the singing and the eating."

-An outsider (Jeff Bridges) describes his world, then ours, in John Carpenter's 1984 film, Starman.
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