It is true that, with TV, a writer gets a great deal more respect.

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

You want magic to feel real.

An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible.

I will never probably have the mathematical foundation to truly understand what string theorists are talking about, but it feels good, just for its own sake, to get as close to an understanding as you can.

The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

Everything I learn about the world, whether it's the simple arcana of how commercial products are manufactured and designed and how they reach our shelves and where the chips come from and who does the code, to more profound things like whether or not a black hole might be penetrable as a wormhole, whether or not universes might be accessible from here, whether space can be stretched and compressed to enable faster-than-light travel without violating physical law - all of those things have tremendous story potential.