Success is never deserved. Success is always earned..

To have what few have, do what few do..

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally importa….

You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it..

I always have something going on..

Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads..

Whatever your story, the world does not need to mould you..

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on..

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard..

Whoever tells the best story wins..

No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood..

War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same..

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves..

The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be ….

I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until after I've written a scene - ….

Presuasion is what you say immediately before you deliver your message that leverages your success tremendously..

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us..

Why would I endorse the hibachi grill when I am the hibachi grill?.

I do to others what they do to me, only worse..

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?.

In my day everything wasn't so PC..