Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

Stories are the currency of human relationships.

My favorite time is now, like tonight, under a full moon. When a thousand crystals are sparkling at us. It's almost magical, isn’t it?

The ink of a pen is simply the blood of a heart

Believe what you wish, but prove what you can.

When I want a peerage I shall buy one like an honest man.

A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.

In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.

I was poking fun at myself most of all.

I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.

Waiting for supply-side economics to work is like leaving the landing lights on for Amelia Earhart.