You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.

Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand? Here is the truth – actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends, and there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

Ya' know, these days kids seem to be getting younger and younger.

Fiction either moves mountains or it's boring; it moves mountains or it sits on its ass.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.

Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will