Quotes About Author

I like Rice Krispie treats. I like Skittles and Snickers.

President Trump is treating the judiciary the way he treats the media. But the harm created by these attacks could be far greater.

If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.

I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest.

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.

I enjoyed the drama of 'One Tree Hill,' and the opportunity to be one of the comedic aspects, initially.

It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'Germinal,' 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' and 'A Moveable Feast.'

I sound like that old guy down the street that doesn't chase you out of his apple tree.

The NYPD is just a branch of corruption connected to a giant, corrupt tree called the United States government.

I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

I didn't always enjoy playing music with the Trees.

'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.

I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

The original 'Star Trek' series is the classic one. Its successor, 'The Next Generation,' is less lovable, but at its best, it's smarter.

I'm proud of my relationship with 'Star Trek'! 'Star Trek' is a show that I am philosophically compatible with.

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.

Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.

I'd be happy to do Star Trek again, if the writing was right.