237 Quotes by J. Michael Straczynski

You can’t just pick up a gun and become a gunfighter, or go off and explore for a new world, or pull a sword out of a stone, or rescue a damsel in distress, or – so we play games and we read books because the world isn’t the world we thought we were supposed to get, the world we thought we’d been promised by somebody. Because things didn’t turn out the way they were supposed to. So we go someplace else.

Sometimes you can’t see what the problem is until you go close, until you look deep inside. It’s when you look beyond the edge of what you think you know that you can finally arrive at the truth.

Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.