I know I'm not great at structure and story.

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.

I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots.

I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff. Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it is possible to let these things take over.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.

Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz announced he is running for president. Ted Cruz was born in Canada, his father fled to the United States from Cuba, and yet Ted Cruz is against immigration. Isn't that odd?

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

Health and healing will follow fasting.

A lot of people don't listen to the albums. They just listen to the singles.

To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

You can't take life too seriously. You just have to laugh your way through it.

Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

The boundaries of a person's reality often do not change until that person forsakes what he or she feels confident in and then goes blindly with faith.