"I love the supernatural in storytelling. The Twilight Zone was a huge influence on me, in terms of writing and storytelling, where you're not restricted to the parameters of reality to tell your tale."

“Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

“We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.”

Source : "How we found the giant squid". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

“Personal power is the ability to take action.”

“To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone ...”

“You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.”

Source : Interview with Iman Baghai, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2012.

“We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

“Traveling fast over complex technical terrain requires a high level of technical ability and the endurance to support it. These two quite divergent capabilities need to be developed over years of practice. Omitting either limits your potential.”

Source : Source: www.omnivoracious.com

“Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.”