Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

Every heart needs healing.

Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

I want to be funny, but it has to be a believable funny.

Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.

Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.

To create a situation where each new episode has to start in the exact same place as the previous one, with the actors' hair in the exact same place, seemed crazy.

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.