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

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

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.

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.