Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.

Our greatest battle is to become ourselves, in the face of adversity.

When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

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."

If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.