A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
A story is not like a road to follow...it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows.
The challenge is to make the audience feel something, to connect with them on an emotional level.