No one can stand in the way of your personal greatness

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!

Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.

I didn't bring you here, " he said. "You think you're Miss Special Destiny of the

There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.

...chance may do anything.

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?

I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

We need a consistent conservative, someone who has stood for free market principles, who has stood for the Constitution and, critically, who stood for the working men and women of this country.