The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically "war stories."

When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

Fear doesn't go away. The battle must be fought anew every day.

If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet.

On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.