IT’S NOT THAT ANYONE CAN BE A HERO, BUT THAT A HERO CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE. BUT THE KEY IS THAT THEY HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING INSIDE THEM. A SPARK. A SENSE OF MORALITY. A YEARNING.

IT IS NOT ABOUT SYMPATHY OR LIKEABILITY, EITHER. EMPATHY IS ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF FEELING.

ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT.

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

A leader is firm enough to be responsive to changes.

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.

When I got to college I finally got a job.

I may not be a pin-up, but I'm one hell of a boxer.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.

IT'S funny. It doesn't work the other way round !

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.