I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me.

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 live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

Got to say, dying would really wreck my best day. Been there, done that, and now that I think about it, Artemis forgot to give me the t-shirt.

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

The mystery of Evil and its origin & purposes".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.

If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

It is not for you to judge the journey of another's soul. It is for you to decide who YOU are, not who another has been or has failed to be.

In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.

Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.