No one's going to see my mistakes; I just need the safety of these mistakes to lead me to the right answers.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

The best stories infuse wonder.

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate from drawing.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

To learn to die is an heroic work.

..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.

The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher.