237 Quotes by J. Michael Straczynski

Life was meant to be lived full measure, flat out, pedal to the metal. Don’t live the rest of your life like a Porsche that never leaves the garage because somebody’s afraid to scratch it.

Dead people are infinities of maybes.

I want to have time. When you’re doing a monthly book, you’re like a man racing after a bus. You’re breathless and red-faced. I want to build in quality control.

I’m all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won’t.

On a certain level, I don’t think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It’s also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.

Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words – the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.

Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It’s the nature of the business.

When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that’s how you learn, from people who don’t have to be polite to you.