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.

Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

I live by myself, which I love. In this industry, you're so often surrounded by people and busy and talking to people. It's kind of lovely when you get home to just chill out.

Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too.

Call on your Lord when your heart is brittle, that is a time when it's in pieces and the Light of Allah can fill the gaps. That is why Allāh is with the broken hearted.

I'm someone, the same as my girlfriends, when they say what do you think about this, I don't always say they look fabulous. I say what I think.

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

It's real interesting to have a soul as a friend, and it makes me feel super special that I've managed it.

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.