My brain has always been wired in such a way that I'd rather communicate to a smaller audience who really get turned on by what I do than meet a wider audience and give them milk.

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.

Omitting the truth is its own kind of lie.

Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong.

The idea here is simple, if you can dream it, it is possible.

I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.'

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.

The culture will not be able to persist in light of the rigid systems of its own innocence.

It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark.

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.