In the particular lies the universal.

Things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow.

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

If your work appeals to everyone, it moves no one

The life you want doesn't exist. You have to make it up.

If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone — they have a potential to gain so much more.

You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know

We're supposed to be the people who make culture, not decorate culture.

Put your weird in your work!

Chains of gold are still chains.

His Magnificence - Your Manifestation.I will make of thee a great nation

I think we can affect our own fates, but there's also a powerful energy that's the universe or God or whatever your unconscious recognizes that helps along your way.

Big deal... the only cats that don't have three legs are the ones with two through zero legs.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe.

The happiest stutterers, I learned, are those who are willing to stutter in front of others.

Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.