God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale.

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.

The people who gave up their humanity to save their planet was always very interesting to me.

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself.

We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

With love and faith everything is possible.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

I've been blessed to have an amazing mom and two amazing sisters - so they set a very high standard.

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.

Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.

The fear and the search for security have turned the world into a horrific hell.