Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.

The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.

Imagine yourself in the scene. See what there is to be seen. Listen to the sounds. Touch the world. Smell the air. Taste it. Use all of your senses. Then evoke those experiences for the reader. If you give the audience the flavor, they'll flesh out the moment in their own imaginations.

I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.