I am always looking for what I think are original voices.

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.

Orientation & Proximity. Be aware of the orientation between yourself and others so that you can be sensitive and responsive to their comfort zones.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.

To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.

My father was an all-American football player.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.

After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease.