The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.