Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen.

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.

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.

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

If you really want to change society, encourage self appreciation.

Before you cut down the tree, think of the birds that take refuge on it

In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.

Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.

Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive.

I realized that I needed to know more about the business side of things. I don't like feeling uneducated about things, and feeling uneducated about my own business felt ridiculous.

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

Opening cans of chili in zero gravity to see how it looks, that's something that went wrong.