A good story isn't the one that shuts everyone down and sort of leaves them in silent awe. A good story is one that, even before you finish the anecdote, you can see their eyes shining because it has so resonated with something from their own lives that everyone in the group has a version of the same story and they cannot wait to tell it, and that they're going to compete to make their version even more extreme than your version. So your version is just a seed.

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.