Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I have less time to do it.

I write out of enthusiasm. Momentum that comes from a new idea. Eagerness to explore. I also write out of fear - fear of losing an idea - fear of feeling stagnant.

I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.

I was tired of working in an office and I wanted to make a living telling stories. There are not many people who find a way to do this.

Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.

Horror is so basic. You'd get an adrenaline jolt from watching your mom get gored by a woolly mammoth. A horror movie gives you the adrenaline without having to have your mom get gored.

I love horror movies. I consider myself a horror author, sometimes.

The Shield made me realize there were great opportunities for writers in TV.

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.

I own some bugs encased in lucite or something. I also have a big cat's eye - a fake one - made for a taxidermist. I really like animals.

Yeah, most guys don't like to think about going to a bar with a girlfriend and watching her leave with someone else.

Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now we don't. Now we see them, right?

Not many people get every single thing they want plus all the things they didn't think to ask for in the same day.

If it wasn't for the fun and money, I really don't know why I'd bother.

If radioactive waste were dissolved as water soluble compounds and then widely dispersed in the oceans, no health or other environmental risks would ever occur.

One of the things about working on Star Trek that was always so great was that we all got along as well as we did. We really became family.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

Things were about as normal as a Luddite working for Bill Gates.’ – Sundown

Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.