We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.

Story is about originality, not duplication

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.

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.

Ninety percent of what we create is not our best work.

When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.