This Week…

“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.”
—Mark Twain

“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
—Ernest Hemingway

“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”
—Stephen King

“Doing a movie or a play is like running a marathon. Doing a television show is like running until you die.”
–David Mamet

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
–Plato

“Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”
–Rumi

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
–Rumi