Think about how backstory fits the tale you're trying to tell... p.195

...your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192

Love and learn from everyone, but follow your heart, and your inner conviction.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.

I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

Full moons, skunk weed all up in the room; You got the munchies, baby? Ice cold milk and Lorna Doones.

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

Everyone goes "every comedian does Arnold Schwarzenegger". Yes, they do; but do they do Arnold Schwarzenegger in Brokeback Mountain?