If you're constantly hamstrung by worry that people aren't going to like it, you can't do your job.

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

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

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.

To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you.

Patient is a persistent act.

Do something worth remembering.

People are obsessed. There's an incredibly large group of people that spend most of their time considering other people's lives. It's strange to me.

If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.

To love is to transform; to be a poet.

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.