Robert Louis Stevenson

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.