“Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.”

“Culture, Alienation, Boredom and Despair.”

“Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.”

“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”

“To a hypothetical alien with a vastly superior intellect to our own, human minds would be classed as intermediate forms between the mindless and the fully minded.”

“They stared at each other, man and alien, or more correctly alien and alien—for this is what they were to each other. Alien meaning different, alien meaning unknown.”

“The essence of my optimism is constructive pessimism.”

“We can determine America's future. After all, that's what an election is all about. So let's decide for optimism, not pessimism; for hope, not despair; for strength, not weakness; for victory, not defeat.”

“In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called, a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation' -- a devaluing of the world and its creator.”

“Aliens 3 [sic] is everything that’s wrong about Hollywood, from an incorrect title (it’s Aliens 2)…[after being shown that the title was, indeed, Alien3]…Aliens 3 or Alien 3—title is still wrong.”