In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

I couldn't direct because I'm too impatient and I couldn't put together a package because I don't understand money. I'd rather just do what I'm doing.

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful.

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

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.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.