“Though the world and events do exist independent of mind, they obtain of no meaning in themselves- none that the mind is not guilty of imposing on them.”— Michael Ferris, Steve De Jarnatt, Peter Chung, John D. Brancato, Trevor Goodchild, John Rafter Lee, imdb.com
“It’s like, I love making shit up and I love performing.…The mind is interesting to me. The mind is fun. I have fun hanging out with myself. I’m my own friend, and we have serious things, of course, but we also…I’ll think of things and laugh out loud by myself.”— Steven Wright, lasvegasmagazine.com
“It’s important to learn how to balance the writer’s mind (free-flowing, wild, possibly insane) and the editor’s mind (careful, craftsmanlike, obsessive about detail), and in fact you need both.”— Cary Groner, glimmertrain.com