Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional crazy heart.

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. That, I saw, was the victory you Spartans had gained over yourselves. That was the glue. It was what you had learned and it made me stay, to learn it too.

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

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."

The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.