I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

Watch your back, but more importantly when you get out the shower, dry your back. Its a cold world out there.

The other day the grass was brown, now its green cuz I ain't give up. Never surrender.

The key is to enjoy life, because they don't want you to enjoy life.

They'll try to close the door on you... Just open it.

When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful.

Almond milk + cinnamon crunch = major key to success.

In life everyone has a choice. The key is: make a right choice.

To succeed, you must believe. When you believe, you will succeed.

The key is to be honest. Be honest, but don't play yourself.

Being a billionaire helps when you live in a slum and have to eat scraps of food and drink dirty water.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

asleep to rummage in their minds

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.

I get homesick a lot. That can make me so emotional that I sometimes feel like crying- but never in front of anyone. No way!

There's nothing like the knowledge of being hanged in the morning to concentrate the mind wonderfully.

The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.