Talented people are restless at their core.

I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.

A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

You must be a servant if you want to be great in life

You can't teach kindness with a whip, Janus.

The universe is soo huge, it would be a pity if we were alone

Things will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end.

Are you destitute for the Fire of God? Nothing else matters! Possess ye God's Fire! All else is void!

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.

If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.