London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the thematic intentions.

Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.

I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.

Out of all of the Star Trek movies, I happen to like the most recent one the best. I think it was the best one ever done.

When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

I have noticed that the solar radiation reflections from rippled privacy windows cause greatly accelerated growth patterns in plants

Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else.

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it.

How soft indeed the song of butterflies eating.

No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.

I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.

Each Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.