I can't be told life is beautiful through a normal positive thinking book or a Hallmark movie that language doesn't work for me.

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.

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

[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.

Master the art of finding something to celebrate about in each moment and life will become an exciting adventure.

The problem is not in the sugar when it tastes bitter, the problem is with the tongue.

Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge's Christmas party of fellow intellectuals.

How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.

I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't.

I wanted to make some music with deeper meaning mixed with the fun and cool stuff I've been doing for so long.

We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.

Transcending mind-made limitations doesn't mean you stop being yourself. On the contrary, you become more yourself than ever before.