All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.

Teams Triumph When Today's Tribe Leaders Transform Their Mindset.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

One of us... One of them... One of us... One of them... A rhythm playing like train wheels on a circular track -- never ending but going nowhere.

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.