Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

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

Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

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.

I always look towards the light of my desires, so I never forget where I'm going.

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Interacting with you should give answers to specific kingdom questions

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

If you are a very intelligent person, you will see this: All the realities in the universe can be changed!

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.

The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.