The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.

I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.

I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach.

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.

Directing offers you the hope that your vision will reach the screen, unmolested and intact. Therefore, it's tantalizing to all writers.

It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing.

Making the right choices on the worlds we explore is going to be our biggest challenge.

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.

Never allow your short term temperament to affect your long term decisions.

That said the conspirators:Tell us your secret and we will have betrayed you for a lifetime.

I know it's crazy to believe in silly things, but it's not that easy

Do not ignore inspiration, it is your guide to self discovery.

Don't marry for money, you can borrow it cheaper.

It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

What this game's really about is using each day as a platform to express your greatness.