Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

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

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.

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

The universal erosion of values has lead to the universal erosion of story.

Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart. Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.

It seems to me that the civilized human being is a skeptic someone who believes nothing at face value.