People write for ego gratification, not money.

Music is like poetry, It can stop you thinking. But it can also open you up.

Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion, " she says. "Oh, well, good, that's a comfort, " I say.

It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief—my experience also—that women do not have the need to collect that men have.

It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well.

Art is a process, not a product.

The best way to be happy is to make someone else happy.

Life holds so much so much to be happy about always. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set any conditions.

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

Remington Tate, I swear to you—I swear—that when I’m able to get up from this stupid bed and run again, you’re always, always, going to be the one thing I’ll run straight to.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes

Sometimes I'll have a whole song done without having a beat - I'll just rap on an instrumental tempo and recreate a whole new song just around the lyrics.