“It’s really nice when you can sit down with somebody and just talk to them, and talk about your ideas and what you think the character is, and they respond to it. It’s a really nice way to do it, but it doesn’t happen very often.”

So many people love sci-fi, and they’re so loyal.

With a popular show, you know that there’s expectations there, so that’s a little nerve-wracking when you’re new and you’re just trying to find your legs on something, but it’s exciting, too, because that’s what we work so hard for.

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so too be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it.

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.

Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events.

The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.

I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.

Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.

You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.