I think more and more scientists are becoming convinced that it's very likely that life forms of some kind exist all around the universe not so far from us.

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

Confidence is preparation in action.

You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.

Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.