Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times was more carnival-like, and very much more the creature of television than the creature of a legitimate literary form.

There are a lot I'm proud of, and a lot I wish the hell I'd never written.

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

You can become much more independent, much more courageous with a bank account. And also, much more independent and self-reliant when you know you have money behind you.

You could do much more in movies than you could on TV, and even movies were heavily censored. But in television, the areas of timorousness were fairly laid out. Race relations. Sex. Politics. There was a whole conglomeration of taboo themes. And even to date, though television has become a much freer medium, it's still far less free, far less creatively untrammeled than are the movies. They're infinitely more adult in that respect.

I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.