Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Most of the time, my favorite drama has comedy in it as well. I think most good dramas have comedy in there. And all of the dramatic actors I look up to are also very funny.

The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

I am happy even before I have a reason.

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.

Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.

You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn.