How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.

Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!

Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.

Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.

Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.

I do know that the best way to make a mediocre movie is to just transcribe the book.

Everything went great right up to the explosion.

I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’.

As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.

If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it.

Actually, I was the very lowest ranked member of the crew. I would only be “in command” if I were the only remaining person.”What do you know? I’m in command

Without faith, we faint.

To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal.

The happiest people in the world are those who give happiness to others.

Be dangerous, darling, for the whole world rises and falls at your feet.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

I certainly know quite a few kid actors, but I'm not really friends with them. They're all very nice people, but I just don't run in the same circles.

It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.

The rule that covers everything is: how you are with others, expect that back.