Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.
To connect to people at the deepest level, you need stories.
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.
Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.
In comedy laughter settles all arguments.
Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.