For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me.

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.

All literature is political.

There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.