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.

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

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

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.

The truth is in the heart

We all need salespeople who understand the problem and can deliver a solution that works brilliantly for both sides.

Everyone has to start somewhere. So get out there and start.

This focusing outward...painful as it was, saved her from a more intolerable examination.

When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.

People have power and it is very important to respect that. Everybody's had thousands of lifetimes, and who knows what anyone has learned in a lifetime ... respect not fear.

I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.

My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

My legs tired, ain't your legs tired!? His legs ain't Tired! He Just... Tinktinktinktinktinktink, TinktinkTinktinkTinktink!! Just paperclips and Sparks everywhere!

I don't like old friends talking to me like I'm a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I'm becoming two-dimensional.