There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I pronouncing it correctly? It sounds like I'm swallowing a turtle.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed.

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.