I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.

- Be thou not technical with me,/Or else thine input valve may swift receive/a hearty helping of my golden foot.

Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I've written to myself, just in case.

O help/ Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, help. Thou art/ Mine only hope. -Leia Organa

True it is,/ That these are not the droids for which thou search'st. -Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess. - Han Solo

If flurries be the food of quests, snow on.

Mostly, I hope that by having some fun with Shakespeare's style I'll encourage young people who are intimidated by Shakespeare to give him a try.

I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying to write a little bit most evenings just to keep the creative juices flowing.

Indeed, it may most verily be saidThat only death and taxes certain are.

I do believe—that all the world's a star. Beyond that heav'nly light I shall fly far!" Luke (ACT I, Scene 7)

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding

A perfect day would be to get into the car, drive out to Yosemite and go camping.

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.

I call myself the assistant cult leader.

Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

It's a law of life: the tyranny of things.

The number of maternal deaths is significantly understated because of a lack of effective data collection both in the US and around the world.

I think Ace is a great guitarist, and with the four original members of KISS, there's a magic and chemistry that you just can't touch.