It was a little like having religion. The world was a more interesting place if there was more to it than met the eye.

A willingness to go against the conventional wisdom was one of the side effects of looking at the world in a particular light.

There is something to be said about the vastness of the earth, as well as the vastness of the heavens, in reminding us how small we are and how great God's creation is.

You don't have to be a big name to do big things. Shine does not require recognition.

Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Create havoc, create destruction.

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

I like to sleep so much that I wake up exhausted from sleeping so hard.

Every person's every action has an effect.

I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.