Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.

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.

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.

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.

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state

Be content with what you are and wish not change not dread your last day not long for it.

I get the feeling you'd rather pine over someone you can never possibly be with than try being with someone you can.

I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.