I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.
Rose Tyler: Can't you come through properly? The Doctor: Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes would collapse. Rose Tyler: So?
Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty. . . It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.
. . . Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day, but not until those whizzkids in Silicon Valley invent a way to bend the corners, fold the spine, yellow the pages, add a coffee ring or two and allow the plastic tablet to fall open at a favorite page.
You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don't let the storm make you forget it.
Anything works, as long as you write it properly.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre or niche writers, but every single one of us.
In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say “Yes” and hand me a chicken leg, or “No” and slap me with an old fish.
Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.
Is it acting a true vocation?. . . I say it is a gift. . . And fame? Neither sought nor expected. . . still confounds and amazes and disturbs. Whatever the reason. . . I am so very delighted that it did happen. . . I would not have missed it for the world.
The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.