Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.

If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."