I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

Little James Herondale, age two, was in fact holding a dagger quite well. He stabbed it into a sofa cushion, sending out a burst of feathers. "Ducks, " he said, pointing at the feathers.

If you haven’t thought about quitting even once when working on your business, that business is not your real passion.

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

Coming back to Israel is a homecoming.

[Hariharan is] an outstanding writer.

I am not an Internet superstar.

You don't have to forget the past to start enjoying the present.

We do many things we shouldn't in the course of a life. It doesn't make them right or wrong, just a part of who we are.

A warrior balances solitude and dependence.