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

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

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

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.

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.

Perhaps it's better to find joy in the rubble rather than celebrate in ignorance.

He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.

I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.

I have the greatest appreciation for Governor [Sarah] Palin and her family. There's great joy to know them.

The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that all who are outside of Her will not be saved.

We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the ground now. We've got our blood and treasure at stake there already.

No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.