If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

To have a style is to be stuck.

We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks.

Dorothy: Shut up, just shut up. You had me at "hello".- From Jerry Maguire, 1996

I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

Why change the world? Change worlds!

Drink water between meals instead of with them so that the digestive juices will not be diluted.

Pride, anger, gluttony, and idleness are sometimes conquered, but the conversion of a malicious and envious mind is a kind of miracle.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego.

In this scene, I'm talking about how much I don't like cookies.... I'm sayin', 'Listen, guys. Have you read the book? We're not supposed to be eating.'