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

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.

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.

Stories are the currency of human relationships.

Being friends is different from being lovers. It’s a sea change.

What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.

There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.

Im nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate.