That's the magic of revisions - every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.

There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.

Just because you don't see something doesn't mean it isn't there. Some of the most wonderful things in the world are invisible. Trusting in invisible things makes them more powerful and wondrous.

That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.

Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change.

Memory was a slippery thing—slick moss on an unstable slope—and it was ever so easy to lose one’s footing and fall

Not every story is true. And sometimes the things that were wicked become the things that save us, and the things that were good doom us to misery and pain.

There is no utter truth or utter falsehood in this world. There is only mostly. Which part of the mostly you choose to accept, well, that much is up to you.

Sorrow is dangerous.

Nobody really knows herExcept the chosen fewHer secrets are kept hiddenBehind that sun-kissed hue.If I reach out to touch herShe’ll just run awayMy Forever and AlwaysWill have to wait another day.

I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.

As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not.

It's kind of rebellious to be yourself.

Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

We must all realise that the Israeli society is a military society - men and women. We cannot describe the society as civilian .... they are not civilians or innocent.