“The horror genre—which I define as perfectly horrible things happen to perfectly nice people for no reason at all.”

“I think it's perfectly OK to exploit the moon. Largely for two reasons: there's no life there, and it is close enough and rich enough in resources to be economically useful to Earth. In the final analysis, everything we do in space, if it does not help the people of Earth, all the people, it's not going to happen.”

“To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.”

“There was such a dearth of films like that…And the high-school teen movie is a genre that I love. Everything at that age is so heightened and dramatic, and high-school movies capture that so perfectly. But those films are all white, too; there’s no black teen movie genre that exists in the same way.”

“And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.”

“There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.”

“All things that are easy to say have already been perfectly said.”

“When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.”

“To me, this is very boring music—most of it. It has nothing happening. Nothing is sticking. They’re playing music perfectly with wonderful intonation and technique, but it’s dangerous for jazz itself. I do wish these people all the best.”

“most people are perfectly afraid of silence”