Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.

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.

You broughtme your darkness& I loved youwith the radianttears of athousand suns.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

We change when the pain to change is less than the pain to remain as we are.

I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.

There is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy.

Fahrenheit 9/11: The temperature where freedom burns!

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts.

Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?