The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.

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.

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

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.

Being strong isn't enough, being at limit is the real success. Why? 'cause the heaven is the only N' one limit to fly as away as you can.

Success is finding your own path in life.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.

I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.

A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

If you want a change in the world, be the change

Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.