The key to success―keep swimming. Even when they tap you on the shoulder to say the pool has been drained, just keep swimming.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

Do all the works you can while you still have the strength to work.

The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.

I will be sharing additional information I've been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter

If kindness doesn't work, try more kindness.

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

I want to do projects that speak to people, things that inspire change, and projects that help people grow and help me grow in the process.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.