The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

Never buy anything that eats while you sleep.

Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!