Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one point, as long as it's a good one.

Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing is the only way to go.

Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top.

I cannot offer wine without the poison of the alcohol within.

The softest thing I've ever heard are the wind chimes in my backyard. They are soft and cool and mellow.

I am fully aware of the critical moments we face as a country.

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

As your enemies and your friends, so are you

Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted.

This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the cause.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.