Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.