My job, one of them, in science, was to find the gods inside of us.

Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.

Washington and New York, two primary targets for Al Qaeda.

9/11 woke us up, a nuclear 9/11 could shut us down.

Most right-wing person I know!

Michael Jackson was the most astonishing person I've ever met on the face of this planet.

Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

Once, back home, I decided to count how many days out of my twenty months in Afghanistan I’d been on combat missions. 217 days. And I’m still paying the price for every one of those days.

It's key to become 'famous' for one thing first, and that will give you the credibility to go into other areas once your ready... which generally means a long time and a lot of perfecting!

I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots.

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.

I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the DVD release will help it reach a new generation of fans

When you think about going back to the States you start to become more aware of the violence there and how we pollute the Earth more than the New Zealanders.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.