I'm not into politics. I'm into survival.

The stronger a brand’s point of view, the greater its voltage.

Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place

The best content is the means, not the end.

Sometimes maybe it's good to have someone doing a sci-fi show who's not actually necessarily from that background. It also means that sometimes I fall into the most elementary of traps.

Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.

Dare to keep moving when it is a must and there to keep waiting when you have to, but note, you shall always keep waiting if you keep waiting and you shall always keep moving when you keep moving!

People can find patterns in all kinds of random events. It's called apophenia. It's the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information.

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

When you lose an election, you don't blink, you don't turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?

Worship the music, not the musicians.

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.

Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort.