Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

The object of art is to give life a light through which you can imagine and see the world.

Do not cut down on your expenses, Increase your income!

Transform the Material.(Chuang Tzu)

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I'd like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I'm working with.

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

That’s Narmer with the spoon,” I guessed. “Angry because the other bloke stole his breakfast cereal?

Donald Trump supporters are as opposed to Hillary Clinton and probably more so than the Republican Party establishment is.