It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.

The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale.

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen.

God giving man life and taking it away is not nearly so bad as God taking away childhood and giving him life.

[T]he one indispensable ingredient of science fiction [is] a belief in a world being changed by man's intellect, a conviction that what was being written could really happen.

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.

The people who gave up their humanity to save their planet was always very interesting to me.

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

I don't really think in terms of competing with myself.

If you begin to read, you find the answers you seek.

The more people I am able to help, the more people are willing to help others. The more followers we have, the closer we are to a perfect world.

Don't judge someone's attitude until you've felt their pain.

What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

There’s no way I’m going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country.

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.