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.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain!

There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.

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

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!