I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

The best stories infuse wonder.

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

I hear my family's voices in the jangling of my charms.

If there was a light at the end of the tunnel, the flickering bulb above my head wasn’t it. The faces of my tormentors were no angels—they were hell’s minions and I’d stepped into their purgatory.

If it ain't on a page, it ain't on a stage.

If you don't dream, you might as well be dead.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Were really screwed up, aren't we?" "In a very large way.

The search for peace is one of the ultimate quests of the human soul.

The will must be stronger than the skill.

The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.