Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

If love wants you; if you've been melted down to stars, you will love with lungs and gills; with feathers and scales; with warm blood and cold.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Always focus on the power of love than the love of power

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

Being a showrunner is tough, but it is incredibly rewarding and it is, without a doubt, the best job I've ever had.

A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.

The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.

The process of doing a play is an organic one and the process of doing a film is totally un-organic.

I just want to be known for what I do, not who I know.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.