Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

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.

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.

Love is the spirit of light.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.

You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.

The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.

A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.