Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while you struggle onward, this is the reason. They are great directors.

Men leave women for other women. Women leave men for another way of life.

A clever trick does not a concept make.

I keep my perfume in the fridge. If someone sees me in the morning pushing aside the eggs to grab my perfume, it might look a little odd, but it's so refreshing to spray cold fragrance on your skin.

Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

A lot of people don't really understand what rehearsal's about. People are afraid they're gonna leave it in the dressing room, or you're gonna shoot your wad in rehearsal.

Film is an oversimplification of things. That it really boils things down and makes them too simple.

I think that people who have Vegas throat are people who sing from their throats only.

I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.