Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

I measure my friends not by being there with me when everything is going well, but embracing me when I'm criticized and when I endure tough times.

Keep the dreams of your youth very close to your heart.

I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.

Have you been following the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Or as we call it now, the Dead Sea.

My children come first and the career comes in around that.

Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

It is impossible for a man who is bogged to extricate another who is bogged.

Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head.

And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!

Habit was stronger than emotion.