I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

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.

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

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 sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury.