No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then do what you must to write.

You have a drawer full of dull butter knives and an old pair of kitchen shears. You are hardly armed to the teeth.

Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.

He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.

Fan feedback going from a box of letters once every few months to literally tweeting while the show is airing. We are able to get a much quicker response to the choices we're making as storytellers.

Being in love is an exhausting business.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.