The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.

Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do.