There is no way forward that isn’t through pain.

People can be cruelest to those they love.

Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between.

You can't be miserable when you're running. It's such a simple and pure way to feel alive.

We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes.

How do you restart something that had never been turned off?

Because people are more than emotions. People have thoughts and reasons for doing things.

Fear is dangerous. It sparks violence much faster than anger.

An oath is a promise-and a promise can be made regardless of feeling.

If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?

A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.

In the Presence of Love...there are Miracles...Live Love, Give Love and Miracle will follow Miracle and wonders will never cease.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.

Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning.

When you're in love, love makes you do crazy things, and can take you down a whirlwind of a road.

... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.