Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

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

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

Leaders use story to author the future.

Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.