Is this year over yet? Too many people are passing away. Rest In Peace, George Michael.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?" he said softly."Assuredly, " she said, "provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

And don't confound the language of the nation with long-tail'd words in osity and ation.

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth.

Make it about them, not about you.

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.