The biggest mistake young designers make is that they try to make their advertising look like advertising

I look for things that no one I know, even myself, would ever come up with. If your solution is something that your friends or family might come up with, throw it away.

Advertising shouldn't be like medicine. It should be like candy.

Bob Scarpelli [of DDB] has told me I'd rot in hell for the commercials I've done, but I think he's kidding.

With a blade at your throat, a well-connected uncle or a wealthy mother could not save you. Only you could save yourself.

Our past doesn’t define us, rather, it’s the courses we take after that tells us who we really are.

Breaking childhood teachings is never easy, and in essence, they are like white noise that can sometimes stop us from listening to ourselves, or having to listen to ourselves.

stop the darkness and its amputations and find the real McCoy in the private holiness of my hands.

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.

Tour is disgusting, actually, I have no idea how people do it. Your brain would go to rot, unless you really, really worked hard at making sure it didn't.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

If I hadn't gone into acting, I would have been one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard. No, it'd be uglier. I'd probably be dead.

I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified with the race.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.