We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

You will never know how much progress you’ve made in life until you go back and start from the very beginning”.

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.

I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim.

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.

I love my mom. I totally look up to her, and she just doesn't let anybody take advantage of me. People might call that a stage mom.

I want us to heal America and bring it together because that's, I think, the best way for us to get the future that our children and our grandchildren deserve.

I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.