Mostly, I hope that by having some fun with Shakespeare's style I'll encourage young people who are intimidated by Shakespeare to give him a try.

- Be thou not technical with me,/Or else thine input valve may swift receive/a hearty helping of my golden foot.

Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me emailing what I've written to myself, just in case.

O help/ Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, help. Thou art/ Mine only hope. -Leia Organa

True it is,/ That these are not the droids for which thou search'st. -Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi

I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess. - Han Solo

I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.

If flurries be the food of quests, snow on.

I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying to write a little bit most evenings just to keep the creative juices flowing.

Indeed, it may most verily be saidThat only death and taxes certain are.

I do believe—that all the world's a star. Beyond that heav'nly light I shall fly far!" Luke (ACT I, Scene 7)

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.

Some dream it, some do it, some do both.

I love you because you're a child and you're scared.' You're going to hurt me in the end. You're quite mad.

I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.

It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.

Too much intensity can be a bad thing.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.