I would never want to be a trend-spotter, in any field. I just think I would be bad at it. I have very limited range, in terms of the tone of the show, that I'm capable of making.

It's hard enough to do a good show, but it seems like not enough to want to do that.

You can make a little thing feel like a big thing. To me, it's all tone. Tone is the most important thing in the world. Then character, then story, or something like that.

I tend to think of all new voices as a potential for failure, and all the people I've worked with before as the greatest potential for success.

Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.

We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply...

We grow weary of those things (and perhaps soonest) which we most desire.

For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull.

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

Fashion is capitalism's favourite child.