The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both.

Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.

Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.

Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.