“Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.” — J. J. Abrams Quote

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

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

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

I love recording music.

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov.

Unselfishness and defense are our two biggest things. That's our starting point. If you have those two things as foundational building blocks, as long as you have enough offensive talent, other things will fall into line.

Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don't have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland.

Putting in place the building blocks for the future of our economy is common sense.