When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.

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.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

You become a champion by fighting one more round.

There is no perfection in humanity.

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.

That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.