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.

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

Stories are the currency of human relationships.

The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

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

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.