Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

You can feel good about failure. Failure means you did something. You finished the story even if it wasn't what you'd hoped. Failure means you're learning. Growing. Doing.

Enter the story as late as you can.

Write til your fingers bleed.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.

We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

Leadership can mean defiance.

We think the future is robots and hovercars and maybe it’s really here.

Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.

All hail the light, the dark, and the grey.

You can’t be friends with a droid.

You cannot thrive under the wrong stars, Kricket… the stars here are in opposition to you… can’t you feel it?… Let us take you home.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things.

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?

Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.

Fans are fans. I hated and loved them, hated and loved them, hated and loved them.