People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.