Editing is not just about cutting and splicing; it's about finding the rhythm and soul of the story.

You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do—we do it all the time.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the objet of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have cought happiness without dreaming of it.