I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.

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.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.