Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.

How can you put on a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.

People are put down in television now, not because they're not qualitative, not because they're not talented - but because there's no room for them, and worse than that, there's nowhere they can find exposure. Their own good talent may die of mourning, just for want of having somebody read what they've written. I don't presume to say how we can best provide platforms for new writers to get read. I don't know. But therein lies the major problem.