Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.

I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots.

I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff. Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it is possible to let these things take over.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.

Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

You know you love something if you're willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

If anything, a message back to [Donald] Trump is, if you have proof, if you have evidence, please bring it forward. Procedures are in place to investigate any real voter fraud.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

Gratefulness has the courage to trust and so overcomes fear.

Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.

I was going to come in and push you down the stairs.

Live in your imagination today, for tomorrow it can become your reality.

But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother.