No matter how much FUNDING I get, I'm always thinking, 'This is temporary. This is fragile. It COULD all end tomorrow, and how am I going to make today WORTH it? If this is my last day in the lab, what can I do so that I can WALK out of here saying, 'That was a good day?''

Near-term deficits are TEMPORARY and manageable if - and only if - we keep SPENDING in CHECK, the TAX BURDEN low and the economy growing.

Thirdly, Death is nothing ELSE but a CHANGE of a short and temporary for an unalterable and ETERNAL CONDITION.

I LOVE the perspective afforded by having LIVED five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent EGO and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of GRACE, a GOLDEN afternoon.

The center will be fully operational in TWO years' time, but probably in the middle of the YEAR we will have a temporary LABORATORY of 4,000 square feet.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of MANY is PREFERABLE to the good of a few or of one; a LASTING good is to be PREFERRED before a temporary, the public before the private.

I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same REASON that HENRY Morgan selected the SPANISH Main for his PECULIAR - and not dissimilar - sphere of OPERATIONS.

As a child, I ALWAYS ENJOYED BUILDING forts by stringing up bed sheets and CLOTHES. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

I am a TEMPORARY amusement.