Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.

If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

Tim Tebow's like the snake doctor for Florida. Gotta stop the snake doctor, keep the Gators from moving the ball....this time he snaked Alabama with a play action pass.

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

I write short stories. I write every day.

You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming.

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.

Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows.

Interceded? You threw me to the sharks!