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

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.

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.

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.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.

We wonder to write.

It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.

Appreciate the moment.

It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.