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.

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?

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?

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

A relationship is a process. If you have nothing to learn - you have a slave to teach. 's why schools are effective.

The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.

That kind of ball is meat and two drink for the Palace defence.

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified.

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

The most important thing you will ever give your children is a little of your time.