My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest.

You can talk all day long, but if you don't do something, it's a waste.

The only way you really see change is by helping to create it.

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.

Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays.

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

I'm not someone who plays a part for the press junket.

The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.

Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that.