I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord, --use it faithfully.

Your intuitive factor is what picks up other peoples vibration

A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers. Kestrel looked away from Arin. She swore to herself that she would never look back

Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there.

My favorite part of my body is my brain. I think no matter what my body looks like I wont be satisfied unless I know how to use it.

If you try your best, you can always be better.

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.