You want magic to feel real.

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.

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.

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.

And our Divine Parents have been molding God Child’s soul from stardust. And They have been breathing life-breath into its nose, and God Child’s soul has been existing as a Soul of Life.

There is beauty in each word of a Book

the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.

Writers turn dreams into print.

Time is the greatest innovator.

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.

You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.