I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

There is no singular truth known to man. All that we know is but a fraction. Truth can only be seen in pieces.

Yet whenever I think of light, I’m always reminded of her.

I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.

Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well.

You can never rise above the light you look up to.

I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right.

I miss you already I don’t need to leave. I can stay. . . . Mmmm.

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.