Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

You can feel good about failure. Failure means you did something. You finished the story even if it wasn't what you'd hoped. Failure means you're learning. Growing. Doing.

Enter the story as late as you can.

Write til your fingers bleed.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.

We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

Leadership can mean defiance.

We think the future is robots and hovercars and maybe it’s really here.

Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.

All hail the light, the dark, and the grey.

Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair

My knight may not wear a coat of shining armor, but his code of glowing honor will never fail to protect us both from evils far worse than any fire-breathing dragon.

I found a way for her to fall asleep, Paris Hilton, talk to herself.

You name the TV psychic - they're con men.

The only city people are those born so.

The sum total of all sums total is eternal.

What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.

There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.

I'm a calm person who wants to talk about things and think things through.

An actor has to embody a role.