“A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.”

“Progress however slow is still progress, but be it for the better if sped up quicker.”

“A writer's role was never just to tell stories, but to create a world to encompass and share with others.”

“Nowadays films and television are what I like to call "Microwave Media". I like mine in the oven, giving the production time to simmer; get the juices flowing, and cooked to perfection. And that takes time. Slow, precious, tempered time. A script is a film's recipe. It's just a piece of paper to the novice cook, but even a recipe needs time to be perfected before it's given to the masses.”

“When you have the power to love, that strength, that courage is infinite; that love is infinite. There is nothing finite about it's presence, for love. never. dies.”

“There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it.”

“What Grimm fairy tale featured apiarian morphing humans?”

“Thy's bleeding heart confides in the With one's thoughts and troubles Let the kiss thy's lips To ease thou's pain Thy am thou's comfort Lie thou's head on mine pillow Of soft consolation And let the drown Thou's sorrow Away”

“Try to feel God in any little thing you do or feel. In a laugh, a smile, a tear, a revelation-a kiss.”

“What do you do when the alienating silence deafens your 'bootless cries'?”

“Some say pain is the greatest motivator. . . I say it's love.”