Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.
You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got to be real.
When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.
It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!
Famous people are above the law.
Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.
I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.
There were really a bunch of old, old magic hobbyists at the time, some of them who actually had known [Harry] Houdini. You had to be 14 to go to these meetings, and he snuck me in at 12. It was glorious.
The hardest part about parenting is when I have to be The Dad--aka the Fun-Sucker--as opposed to being a friend.
If we put a product into Sears, we don't want to have to pull it out in a year, or two years, or three years. We don't want to do that only to have it yanked away.
I have a strong feeling for it, and I think us as humans perceive all of that - the pressure change and the moon and the wind and whether a storm is moving in on us - if we just are close enough to nature.