Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place

The stronger a brand’s point of view, the greater its voltage.

I'm not into politics. I'm into survival.

The best content is the means, not the end.

Sometimes maybe it's good to have someone doing a sci-fi show who's not actually necessarily from that background. It also means that sometimes I fall into the most elementary of traps.

Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.

Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices.

If you are saying the same thing as everyone else, then why would and why should anyone think you are different from everyone else?

And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror.

Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy, out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy. Workin' on mysteries without any clues, workin' on our night moves.

My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

I can't stand it when Lewis Hamilton or anyone else, is made out to be a godlike character. If Lewis was driving for Red Bull I'm sure he would race extremely well, but he'd be battling for points.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.

Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.