Begin with loss and see how the world contradicts you, how the horizon implies that beyond it the water is not empty but full of ships all docking at another island.

I’m one uncontrollable hunger away from ruin.

Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.

Speculative fiction both requires and rewards an open mind.

Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he could’ve sworn that was where he’d been the past ten years.

All things must change to something new to something strange.

If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.

Whenever you get on the plane, the flight attendant will always tell you the name of your pilot. Like anyone goes, Oh, he's good.

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

Any time that you think you've hit the top of the mountain, the truth of the matter is you've just reached another mountain. And it's there to climb all over again.

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.