The best jokes on The Leftovers are the ones that make you feel a little sick to your stomach.

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

If you do something awesome, you should be proud of yourself.

All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.

Quintus..." Geryon mused. "Short gray hair, muscular, swordsman?" "Yeah." "Never heard of him.

Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.

I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!

Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.

One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.