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.

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

I think you die the way you live.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.