I love art because I feel that it's evidence of the great shared universal power. I like art that feels real, that cuts the bullshit.

I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist.

I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.

If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

You can't be a free spirit in a place that feels like it was built on lockdown.

For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience.

I hope that I'm the kind of person who would step in between somebody holding a gun at somebody else. I would like to be that stupid. I'd like to be that in love with life.

I don't like talking too much about my personal life, but it all goes into my work.

I had to brainwash myself, like what I was doing was going to be really, really good, and then just accept whatever happened.

I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. And it was my secret thing and my passion.

Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. It's not interesting.

Surviving in business is like surviving in the jungle

Having a woman on the team is stirring things inside me that I never felt before while on the job.

One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, " he said. " That's true for companies, and it's true for products.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.

I do not think I could go on living unless I felt that one day I might win the Open Championship at St. Andrews.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

I even feel grateful for the failures.

There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.