Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that, and some regain it.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

That wouldn't be a first, now would it?" "Jean." "Jean Grey is dead, Agent." "Yeah, that'll last.

To accept duality is to earn identity.