Enter the story as late as you can.

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

You can feel good about failure. Failure means you did something. You finished the story even if it wasn't what you'd hoped. Failure means you're learning. Growing. Doing.

Write til your fingers bleed.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.

We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

Leadership can mean defiance.

We think the future is robots and hovercars and maybe it’s really here.

Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.

All hail the light, the dark, and the grey.

You can’t be friends with a droid.

I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.

If she actually had friends, maybe she wouldn't have turned out so nasty and evil.

The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.

I prefer writing for myself to perform, I guess. But if I had to choose, I'd rather perform in someone's movie than write a movie for someone else.

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.