There Are Few Things More Fundamentally Encouraging

You're Free To Speculate As You Wish About The Philosophical And Allegorical Meaning Of The Film—and Such Speculation Is One Indication That It Has Succeeded In Gripping The Audience At A Deep Level—but I Don't Want To Spell Out A Verbal Road Map For 2001 That Every Viewer Will Feel Obligated To Pursue Or Else Fear He's Missed The Point.

What Do You Take Me For? A Fourteen Karat Sucker?

Suppose By Chance You Do Get Picked Up. What Have You Done? You Shot A Horse; That Isn't First Degree Murder; In Fact, It Isn't Even Murder; In Fact, I Don't Know What It Is.

The Great Nations Have Always Acted Like Gangsters, And The Small Nations Like Prostitutes.

The Destruction Of This Planet Would Have No Significance On A Cosmic Scale.