Science fiction always has had strains of pessimism and optimism weaving through its historical development, sometimes one dominating and then the other, usually depending on the state of the world.

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.

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.

Everyone belongs to God. Rather black or white there is no colour for God. He loves all.

I understood something about myself as well, even if I didn't have the will to examine it just then.

That’s no little kid. That’s Jason Steed, the biggest damn hero you will ever see!

Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.

The average person expels flatulence 15 times each day!

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I've had a lot of fun watching my husband's wonderful career as a filmmaker unfold and all the interesting places we've been and people we've met. It's just been a really enjoyable ride.