The people who gave up their humanity to save their planet was always very interesting to me.

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.

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself.

We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

Am not great, but being the story of every whisper is just the greatest.

True love doesn't expect anything but it does gives everything

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

I try to visualize geometric shapes and patterns slowly spinning and expanding into infinity.

I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

Love is ev­erything. Love is God. Live in love.

As it is not possible to walk without feet or fly without wings, so it is impossible to attain the Kingdom of Heaven without the fulfillment of the commandments.