- Success is the bridge between insanity and credibility.
- Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.
- Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.
- Don't listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it's the only way you'll learn.
- People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win.
- When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.
- The quickest way to run out of time is to think you have enough of it.
- Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.
- Science Fiction is a safe, fertile arena in which to rehearse the potential scientific facts of tomorrow.
- Rejection puts you out of your comfort zone which is usually when you're at your best.
- The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.
- Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent is to be truly wealthy.
- The possible is just the impossible that we've come to accept.
- No one remembers how you got a chance, they only remember what you did with it.
- Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything.
- People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring.
- If you don't make a choice, life makes it for you and then you're stuck with what it decides. Take control of your destiny so that doesn't happen.
- You don't get great art by playing it safe.
- Arguing is the Olympics of talking.
- Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.
- There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.
- Jealousy, that diseased crow pecking at your heart.
- I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others.
- For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.
- Be suspicious of the litigious
- Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability.
- If you turn a blind eye to the world now, history will turn a blind eye to you later. Ignoring an issue makes you a tacit supporter of it.
- Perfection is an illusion. Yet perfectionists demand it from others while being far from flawless themselves. The margin of error of the human condition is often our greatest area of excellence and discovery.
- Beware the self-righteous man, for he will destroy the world many times over before he sees his folly.
- The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.
- [on the equilibrium theory proposed by John Nash in A Beautiful Mind (2001)] Applying logic to potentially illogical behavior is to construct a house on shifting foundations. The structure will inevitably collapse.
- Some writers say they find the writing process lonely. I don't. Yes, it's solitary but when you can escape into a world of your own making in the company of potentially great characters, you're not aware you're alone.
- If an artist can occupy the void of artistry while simultaneously parodying its iconography, they can have their metaphorical cake and cannibalize its crumbs too.
- Life is an endless trial and death its certain verdict, but there are many recesses to enjoy before then.
- If your written words become literal nails to crucify you with, then you have done your job well. You provoked a reaction, whether it is positive or negative is irrelevant. Writing that evokes no reaction is a body without a soul.
- Welcome those who question your beliefs, for it is an opportunity to reinforce them. If your beliefs are strong, the words of others can't change or damage them.
- Sickness is a benign rehearsal for death. With luck, some other understudy will go on in your stead before your final bow becomes inevitable.
- Why did Irish people vote to introduce gay marriage? Because we know what discrimination feels like and if we can take the boot of oppression off someone else's throat, we'll do it every time.
- Organised religion is a contradiction in terms - it's the fallible meeting the infallible. Any earthly, bureaucratic representation of a higher power will prove to be inherently problematic.
- People experience art as a transformative or even transcendent experience when it really only reflects back and awakens parts of them that are already there.
- Time is the ultimate critic. What future generations think of us and our work ultimately determines our standing or lack of it.
- Imagination is one of the strongest tools we've got. Keep yours sharp by using it often
- Propaganda is where a demagogue plays pedagogue and starts a monologue to leave their audience agog.
- An internet minute is the apparent nanosecond it takes for a breaking news story to be dubbed fake and/or a conspiracy on social media.
- Time spent reading a book, even a bad one, is never wasted.
- If anyone ever reported my death incorrectly, I'd confirm it was true on Twitter and that I was tweeting through a Ouija board.
- If I decide to get a tattoo, it'll be a map of where I live on my chest in case I ever get amnesia.
- Writing structure is logical. Writing method at its best is instinctive. That way you get the benefits of both styles - improvisation within calculation.
- Criticizing an actor for being emotional is like putting down a swimmer for being able to swim.
- Dreaming is the exploration of unlimited imagination.
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