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.

Story is about eternal, universal forms, not formulas.

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.

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

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

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

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.