Why do you always write these strong women characters? Because you’re still asking me that question. - Joss Whedon

“The three natures of man. Good, evil, and the man struggling between!... The capacity for good and evil is within every person from birth, I think.” - Ted Dekker

"For any villains we may meet, we haven't any fears;Paramount will protect us, 'cause we're signed for five more years." - Road to Morocco

"Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating." - Emma Coats

"The MacGuffin is the thing that the spies are after but the audience don't care.” - Alfred Hitchcock

Two men fought for the sake of a single woman. Though indeed foolish, it was a tale as old as time. - Dies Irae, Interview with Kaziklu Bey

If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep. - Anton Chekhov

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Perfect people are boring. Perfect people are obnoxious because they're better than us. Perfect people are, above all, too good to be true. - Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman