Occupation: Writer Birth: July 17, 1954
The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone. Your friends will not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let life go ba….
I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up..
All love is unrequited. All of it..
People in a cluster are bound to each other automatically, and can see each other automatically..
The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union..
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enoug….
Thank you, but I'm afraid I can't accept your compliment. You see, I'm an atheist, so if I'm also God, that would mean that I don't believe in myself….
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language..
We all are big believers in the notion that as a species we are better together than we are apart, that the common core of our shared humanity is str….
A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the public….
The sky was full of stars, and every star an exploding ship..
I am a control freak. I will admit that freely..
Find what scares you and do it..
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for free….
There are people in life, who show you how to live. There are people in life, who show you how to die..
When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was ….
I've worked on high visibility shows that weren't always the best, and low visibility shows that I love but that didn't have the PR behind them..
When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those ….
Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous..
For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anyt….
Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $20….