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.

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.

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.

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it’s trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

I have to move fast, if I hesitate even a second longer, I’ll lose focus and be trapped forever in this... this... toilet!

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don’t have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

I like to consider my mind an open door. It’s just not a revolving door.

I’m all for crossovers if they benefit the individual books.

G’Kar: We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away.

I’ve written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.