Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.

I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots.

I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff. Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it is possible to let these things take over.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.

Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

Treasure the people who are willing and able to help you reach your goals.

You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

Time is the supreme Law of nature.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.

My whole life is my work.

I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.

Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.

I like anchovies, and I don't tell everybody about them. Almost every time, they don't even notice.