You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing.

When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.

I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.

I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach.

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.

Directing offers you the hope that your vision will reach the screen, unmolested and intact. Therefore, it's tantalizing to all writers.

It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

Making the right choices on the worlds we explore is going to be our biggest challenge.

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.

The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

I feel ill, " [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

God knows of love

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel when I could be the artist?

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

When it is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings.

With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.