There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up.

I don't know what is in my destiny, but I want to be sitting on top of the highest peak of the sky.

The presence of ghosts is only as close as your belief.The existence of aliens is only as far as your rejection.

True communication depends upon our being straightforward with one another... But the best way to communicate may be just to sit without saying anything.

Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks.

Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.

Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it.

Life is messy, and it's okay if you are too! We all screw up, that doesn't have to define us.

A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.

Lir said, "It is my right. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last." But Schmendrick answered, "This is not the end, either for you or for her.

There are a lot of people who touch the customer.