The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

The beast inside me has begun to surface.

Ellie, would you frolic in the land of forever with me?

I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit.

The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.

The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.

What good is a dream house if you haven't got a dream?

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

Every thing is of the nature of no thing.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.