237 Quotes by J. Michael Straczynski

Words have power. Names are power. Never give that shit away for free.

Never enough time. It's never enough time. Was there enough time?

Not all murder is evil...In the right time, the right place, for the right reason --it can be a blessing more profound than any you can imagine

If we cannot win, we can at least deprive them of the victory.

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

When the Seinfeld show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. Thor is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.