You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.

If you can learn to be incredibly passionate about your work without fighting for it just because it's yours, that's a huge thing.

There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot, every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy to make a living and never get anything produced.

Not taking criticism of your writing personally is an enormous step towards surviving the studio system.

The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.

When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.

For a living I write stuff that I know is gonna sell to a studio and make a lot of money at the multiplex.

I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

Probably your first agent is going to be some guy who also handles dog acts.

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

All spheres of life in society are mission fields. They are the “Promised Land” where the Lordwill lead us to.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it.

You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

Swords don't glorify the creator-God. Love does. Self-giving love, best of all.

Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion.

Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.

Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes

God brings millions of flowers to bloom without force.