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

Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.

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.

Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.