I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.

When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.

I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.

I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach.

Directing offers you the hope that your vision will reach the screen, unmolested and intact. Therefore, it's tantalizing to all writers.

It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing.

Making the right choices on the worlds we explore is going to be our biggest challenge.

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.

The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

With showrunning, the more successful you get, the more you're pulled away from the writing.

I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road.

True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.

Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world. Now is the time to spread hate, hatred for the rich.