I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like a charlatan because what I was teaching I probably couldn't do.

Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.

We must learn to let the Word of God feed us and strengthen us in our faith in God its author, Christ its message, and the Holy Spirit its teacher.

May we show great concern to those of great concern to God.

And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.

It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.

How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?

Our aim must be to make our successive mistakes as quickly as possible. To speed up evolution.

We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.