Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.

I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

I've been betrayed a lot of times in life. I think everybody's been.

I never feel any aggravation from the public.

Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self.