My journey is technical complexity.

Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

Of course, your ideas can be stolen... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment... Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something.

If you have a success, the terror is how on earth can you follow it up.

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

It's important to balance the drudgery with inspiration. It's a nightmare if you are just existing in the present project - you don't feel a sense of your own growth.

My big struggle has been how to expand my mind without being able to expand my physical experience of the world.

You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.

I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

Only God can take our failures and turn them into victories.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

I have very strict rules in my head that seem to me to be the way things should sound.

The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.

I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of Family Ties between Monday and Friday.

The flow of energy through a system acts to organize that system.

Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.

Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.