It's definitely not the character who it is in the comics, I'll say that much.

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale.

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen.

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.

The people who gave up their humanity to save their planet was always very interesting to me.

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself.

Life is a dream in which you are the dreamer as well as the dreamed.

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

You know, you can only cram your beliefs down a young kid's throat for so long before he goes, "you know, the other side seems to be having a lot more fun."

Doing the right thing isn't always easy - in fact, sometimes it's real hard - but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.

The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

In an oppressive society if a group stands up to take care of the lambs, it automatically stands up against the wolves.