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

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.

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.

A strong theme is always running through a well-told story.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, ...

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

It's money. I remember it from when I was single

Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.

Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing.

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

People don't even know that we have political prisoners.