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.

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.

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.

Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

A smile is merely a symptom of the human condition called happiness. Animals are affected by that condition more often though the symptoms are not so obvious.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive.

At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.

I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating

Make sure you're always giving, way more than you're taking

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

There are hearts to gladden... kind words to say... gifts to be given... deeds to be done.