The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.