Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.

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.

It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

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