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 love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.

Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!

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

You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?

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.

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.