That people you don’t know are worth knowing, that they have something to teach you. That learning about them – that encountering new ideas – doesn’t threaten you, it enriches you. (Celeste Ng)

Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit. (Junot Diaz)

Whatever happens in your life, make a promise to yourself that you will never give up your ability to dream.

You are really angry with me for not having appeared to you in a red glow, with thunder and lightning, with scorched wings

Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

I obviously have a lot of love and affection for the people of Hamilton from playing there for so long.

I hated my last boss. He asked, Why are you two hours late? I said, I fell downstairs. He said, That doesn't take two hours.

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down.

I always had the thought I could attract abundance.