My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself... because I'm a writer, and it's like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer... it was just getting too hairy.

I loved you when I left you.

Skinny jeans were only good if you had skinny genes.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

A dear friend of mine once told me that the only way around is through. I now live by this.

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

God’s love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God

Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.