The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.

I've discovered that the more freedom I have to be creative, the more creative I become.

I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.

A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.

My dad died of a stroke.

What have I done? I've blundered my way through life. So I have my picture on the wall. The minute I die, that picture will start to yellow and fade and eventually be gone. Blown in the wind and become part of the molecular structure of something else. These things we see as "success," they're non-accomplishments.