"I really like 'Batman.' Not the TV show, but the dark 'Batman.'"

"Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation"

"He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge."

"I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world."

"I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances."

"Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people."

"My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades."

"Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities."

"Tang sucks."

"There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?'"

"The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term."

"I think the climate has been changing for billions of years."

"The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth."

"In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum."

"By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives."

"Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood."

"I want to keep on the move, keep stimulated and challenged."

"Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are."

"As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction."

"Astronauts working for the government will always need to be either pilots or mission specialists. Those who want to be pilots should have military experience - ideally, a test pilot background."

"Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water."

"I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.' He's not about to say that. That would not be very popular."

"I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family."

"I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person."