Somewhere, excitement waited for me like an uncut cake.

Anyone who's ever gone from warm and bright to cold and dark knows how I felt.

All around us, birds woke up the sky.

But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them.

I slept so long and hard that when my mother woke me the next morning I was a stranger to myself.

And that's when I felt the first wave of sorrow that came from keeping a new secret.

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass

People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what

We sat and drank in silence. It was something I appreciated about Jesse. He didn't feel the need to fill every moment with talk or some sort of silly exchange.

In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.

I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

I graduate with honors. I balled Nead O'Connor. I did a free style then I got a shoutout from Obama.

Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age.

I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.