When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.