Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because they couldn't quite disown them.

Your inner understanding of Love - can be extended beyond all you have ever known, before.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

I should avoid that emotion, when I laugh I always think that I'm somehow an a guy who lowers his IQ.

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.

I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

Every Christian who keeps looking up stretches his heart's capacity for Heaven.

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.