After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.

All literature is political.

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

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.

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

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