Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.

I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.

I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery.

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.

The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.

It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'

The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.

I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.

Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly?" asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. "The nerve!

The greatest leader in your life is your mind. It is what controls your feelings and emotions.

It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right.

Next time someone tells you to smile for the camera, & you don’t feel like it—say no, thanks. Don’t fake your way into a happy-seeming life. Open vulnerable honesty is true positivity.

If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working.

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

All I really need is my bed and my art around me.

What was I drinking last night? Furniture polish?

It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.