An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

Police do not belong in war zones.

Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

No one wanted to die with secrets in their grave.

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on

[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.

Murder isn't that bad, we all die sometime anyway.

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

Your body is a form of energy slowed down to assume the appearance of mass. And the mind directs the energy that determines the form.