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.

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.

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.

We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

Creativity is not result, it is a process!

Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey.

The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.

Knowing is not enough, You must apply

The point of any religion should be this: how to open your heart to love.

The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

It is courageous to occasionally admit that there are certain things one can't do.

You'll be with me, won't you?" "indeed." "Then what could go wrong?" Lord Sanabalis visibly grimaced. "You clearly do not believe in angry gods.

The men sometimes do a better job of concealing their hate than the women. With the feminists, you can see it in their faces.

Donate to the extent that you don't have food for yourself after feeding the needy.