Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck.

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.

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.

Be creative! Write, sing, dance, paint, whatever you do, make something for your Maker!

I have a deep and passionate love of America. It is where I have always thought I would be happiest, and although I miss England desperately, I find that my heart definitely has its home over here.

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

If it reenters its base, I have a rule to cut at least 50 percent of the position.

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.

Crosby is a great player, but I'd have to say Ovechkin, who is also a great player but doesn't have the same kind of support, and who does something great on almost every shift.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.