Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.

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.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.

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

The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story.