Making the right choices on the worlds we explore is going to be our biggest challenge.

When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.

I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.

I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach.

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.

Directing offers you the hope that your vision will reach the screen, unmolested and intact. Therefore, it's tantalizing to all writers.

It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing.

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.

The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there.(Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)

You must endure long enough to be victorious.

We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.

In India, there are lots of places that I love, but my favourite is Kashmir.

Whether you realize it or not, you have the power to be successful.

Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.