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

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?

What does God need with a starship?

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.

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

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