I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, 'To keep out the scum.'

I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.

You monkeys only think you're running things.

I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.

She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose].

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.

Conservatism is the politics of reality