I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

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.

I want you to kick Egg, Tea and Clipper out of the band!” - Daisy

Your fans, they love you erratic, charmingly gut-shot. They place the rose in your teeth, and you live off the thorns.

In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do.

In mysticism we deal with dreaming and the fields of perception.

I am too far gone to be rehabilitated.

I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.

As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world