My gravestone will say,'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

Higher consciousness means your self consciousness ceases to exist

Everything she does comes from within, from some dark impulse. I guess that’s what makes her so thrilling to watch. So dangerous. Even perfect at times. But also so damned destructive.

the lies of centuries, the lies of love, the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end.

No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

We are more than just our bodies, but that doesn't mean we have to be shamed for them or our sexuality.

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.

I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.

We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.