If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

I try to make that tension almost stupidly overt in my projects, almost ridiculously so. I keep coming back to the same obvious points again and again.

The higher the goal, the harder the climb, but after that the bigger the muscle the, smarter the mind.

Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

I had the opportunity to speak at a recent fundraiser [for Hillary Clinton] and felt extremely honored that she would allow someone as, well, untraditional as me to stand at her podium.

I'm not a good actor, I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's my range.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.