The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.

I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.

I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.

My main question that I ask of my characters is, 'What does it feel like to be you? And how do you get through the day? Where do you find the hope and faith to endure getting through the days, and what are your days like?'

With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity.

In film and theater, you know the story and the journey from beginning to end, but with TV, you can keep peeling away layers and exploring a new world each week.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.