Reality has a way of asserting itself..

Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice? There is a nearerneighbor within us ….

Better not to work on things that you're not in love with..

Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long..

I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them..

Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way..

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws..

The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion..

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work….

Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write..

Whatever you've learned becomes truly useful to you only once it has become second nature..

I go out of my way to try not to be too annoying... my biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride..

People will say things after a screening that it affects them in a certain way, which is why I don't like to explain what certain things are about. I….

When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort..

I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies..

This is a warring universe. To survive here, one must know its ways..

I'm just permanently agitated by everything and everyone..

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional..

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never wou….

It's always weird to shoot when you're really basically not wearing anything..

I get recognized a lot now. It's great..