If you don't trust yourself, you won't trust others. You make a choice and see where it goes.

Everyone can walk and talk. Your job is to create magic.

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work

I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the DVD release will help it reach a new generation of fans

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

Doubt is a very important trait. Out of doubt comes thinking, decisions, choices. We learn stuff. We learn to make mistakes. Or not to.

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop

God is a luxury I can't afford.

A poem is a painting with imagery and words

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

All limitations are self-imposed.

People have a tremendous range of options of how they can behave. There's so much in people.

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

After each game, I want to be able to say: I gave it all I could, I gave it my best.

Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.