All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

Desire is inspired by motivation, which gives us hope to believe in ourselves that we can set goals and pursue them successfully.

... Melissa better not turn her back on her because nothing sums up crazy as much as a fat woman in love.

Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.

It's fantastic that Congress has an increasing number of women. Experts call an increasingly female presence in a previously male space 'the Bruce Jenner effect.'

What we know about writing the novel is the novel.

I hold those wise who know how to be happy.

In America, we have a media that lives in its own universe.

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.