One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Social control is best managed through fear.

Medicine for the soul.

Engaging in new creative projects keeps me energized. I feel deeply grateful for all of the opportunities that life has given me.

Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself

I love free speech.

I like the night life, I like to boogy.

When we trust God, He can make the ordinary extraordinary!

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

I'm not trying to say that we're facing or looking at a likely repeat of history. It would be great if we were.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.