D.C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

I love New York. It's kind of perfect. I'm in New York part of the time and in L.A. part of the time. That's always been a goal, to be bicoastal in a real way.

I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world.

I did Chekhov's Three Sisters once. Two months in, I remember going, "Human beings shouldn't be forced to do or watch this play every night." It's so dark and so bottomless.

Normally when you're promoting something a lot, sometimes you get tired.

Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time.

I always go to bed thinking I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

I've always been pretty happy with my style. I've been wearing tapered jeans since 1980 something.

Your intuitive factor is what picks up other peoples vibration

I think it would be great if more adults were able to maintain that joyful creativity that we all experience as children.

So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.

Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.

Learn as if you will live forever.

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.

My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts?

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.