“Patience is good. It lengthens the scene so you can see what needs to be seen.”

“The thing about patience, I mean real patience, is that it is most needed when there is something you really want to see happen. That’s patience.”

“He was responsible. He was good. It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene. Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something, being good.”

“Inner Peace can be seen as the ultimate benefit of practicing patience.”

“(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.”

“Anyone can write good sex scenes. All you need is some basic knowledge of anatomy, the right vocabulary and some choice reading material. Experience has nothing to do with it.”