If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.

I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots.

I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff. Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something.

It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it is possible to let these things take over.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.

Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff.

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.

I don’t know what you dream, when you are everyone’s dream.

She trusted him. Her heart knew him.And her body wanted him.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.

I’m not dead yet. It’s all good. (Omari) Good. That whole spontaneous combustion thing can be a real buzzkill. Ruins your clothes, too. (Nero)