{"author":"J. Michael Straczynski","author_id":"J.+Michael+Straczynski","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.","author":"J. Michael Straczynski","tags":["suck","which","every "],"id":12631,"author_id":"J.+Michael+Straczynski"},{"text":"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- 'No, YOU move.","author":"J. Michael Straczynski","tags":["captain-america","right","truth"],"id":22809,"author_id":"J.+Michael+Straczynski"},{"text":"We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.","author":"J. Michael Straczynski","tags":["future","society","people "],"id":32029,"author_id":"J.+Michael+Straczynski"},{"text":"Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.","author":"J. Michael Straczynski","tags":["work","goals","great "],"id":41930,"author_id":"J.+Michael+Straczynski"},{"text":"I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually done more police and procedural shows than I've ever done science fiction shows. I was on 'Murder She Wrote,' I was on 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' I was on 'Jake and the Fat Man.'.","author":"J. Michael Straczynski","tags":["man","police","journalism "],"id":75752,"author_id":"J.+Michael+Straczynski"},{"text":"It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.","author":"J. Michael Straczynski","tags":["gods"],"id":76572,"author_id":"J.+Michael+Straczynski"},{"text":"The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.","author":"J. Michael Straczynski","tags":["babylon-5","future","science-fiction","television","tv"],"id":106990,"author_id":"J.+Michael+Straczynski"},{"text":"Accidents happen. That's what everyone says. But in a quantum universe there are no such things as accidents, only possibilities and probabilities folded into existence by perception.","author":"J. Michael Straczynski","tags":["2013","accidents","dr-manhattan","perception","probability","quantum-universe","schrödinger"],"id":164088,"author_id":"J.+Michael+Straczynski"},{"text":"People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.","author":"J. Michael Straczynski","tags":["wisdom","past","blame "],"id":172293,"author_id":"J.+Michael+Straczynski"},{"text":"Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...It will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...","author":"J. Michael Straczynski","tags":["cinema","film","motion-pictures","movies"],"id":180603,"author_id":"J.+Michael+Straczynski"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}