I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?

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.

Friendship love. This is a very special thing. It’s the sort of love where you know another being’s strengths and weaknesses, perfections and imperfections, and you love the whole package.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.

I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them.

I wasn't trying to be a role model for anybody. I don't think that you can.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.