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

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.

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.

What does God need with a starship?

Things do not happen TO you. They happen THROUGH you.You are the co-creator of everything in your reality.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

Hoboken is a neat place.

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?

There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

One must love the mirror in the face of truth, only if one loves the outlook of your inner compassion.

After a match, my opponent goes to the hospital and gets an IV and I have a martini.

Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot.