[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you don't have it. There's not really a middle bit where you're like, "I think we kind of have that scene."

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.

Failure hurts pretty bad. But when you got good people around you they remind you that failure is actually just a lesson. It's how not to walk so you don't fall again.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.