I've never really topped myself, because awards in themselves really don't reflect major accomplishment. It's kind of a strange, backslapping ritual ….

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse..

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized..

Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit..

I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not..

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. Yo….

I'm a Western-cultured man who subscribes to the ancient saw that men do not cry, I don't cry either. I'll go to a movie, for example, and not infreq….

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete..

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace..

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself..

If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sy….

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on..

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody..

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say..

Star Trek, I thought, was a very inconsistent show, which at times sparkled with true ingenuity and pure science fiction approaches, and other times ….

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television..

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are ….

There are a lot I'm proud of, and a lot I wish the hell I'd never written..

Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your….

Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, wa….

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic..