A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.

People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.

The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.

The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.

Your walk with God does not depend on people, places, things or events.

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Ability is the result of mental and physical toughness, resourcefulness, and powerful concentration.

If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.

I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations.

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.