“The stronger a brand’s point of view, the greater its voltage.”

Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.

I’m not into politics. I’m into survival.

I’m not from a particularly sci-fi background. I’m not anti sci-fi at all, but I’ve never been known as a sci-fi writer and, suddenly, I was creating a flagship BBC sci-fi show, which is terrifying sometimes.

The best content is the means, not the end.

I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I’d always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.

Just because there’s a trillion places to put an idea doesn’t mean you don’t need an idea in the first place

I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I’m a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I’m slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.

THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.

One reason outfielders don’t have stronger arms might be they don’t practice as much as we did.

Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now – basketball, football, soccer – for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

There will come a day when you will be stronger and you will forget that person that just broke your heart.

Sadness doesn’t equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.