In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

So what? All writers are lunatics!

Until further notice, celebrate everything.

Jade felt the cool rain on her new shapechanger skin.

All forms of dire poverty and brutality were things to forbid as insults to the fair body of mankind, every injustice a false note to avoid in the harmony of the spheres.

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

I haven't known life to be any happier.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.

In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.