The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

To dance is human, to polka is divine.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

Wash you make you clean.

The best motivating factor of all, however, is divine intervention, or what I like to call The Magic of Grace.

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.

People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.

I don't connect accessibility with lowest common denominator.

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.