Most of what Hollywood puts out is crap anyway.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

May you know always that you are never alone, that life and love are eternal, and that you are extraordinary.

Much of human progress has involved reducing the time and energy, as well as the number of processes we have to engage in and think about, for each of us to obtain the necessities of life.

Dream, believe, work hard and succeed.

The reason why women grown bad are worse than men is because it is the best that turns to the worst.

I can really laugh at myself and make a fool out of myself.

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.