People love dogs. This is, I hope, the least surprising sentence you will read in this book. I myself have had long discussions with my dog friends, and by that I mean my friends who are dogs.

It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Discipline your mind to think positively

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.

There are plenty of things in vaults that didn't sell in its time. So much stuff. But slowly these companies start to get a hint that these things have some value.

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.

Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.

I've always been transparent in who I am as a person.