Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.

Most will choose to leave someone who can't bear to see them go.

A fool harvests his opinions in the spring.

It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them.

I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an encyclopedia, then you put the pages through a paper-shredder, randomly grab whatever intact lines are left, sing them in Italian to a Spanish deaf-mute, and then make story decisions with the guy via conference call.' But no... compared to writing treatments, that makes sense, too.

You must -- you MUST -- choose well.

Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.