The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?

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.

Keep experimenting, your divine self!

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

I don't go clubing. So, I don't smoke or drink.

My top beauty tip is to drink lots of water. It might sound lame, but it works.

Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book.

Happiness is not in the having or being- it is in the doing.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

I listen to everything. I love The Chemical Brothers.

I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.