The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.

Lighting affects everything light falls upon. How you see what you see, how you feel about it, and how you hear what you are hearing. Replace the 'a' with an 'e' and you get lighting effects!

Light is quite tactile to me. It has shape and dimension.

True love is jealousy in disguise: A man cannot restrict his lover from going to the club because he hates her, he actually hates the men who would come around and touch her.

We don't have to push each other out of the way, because the universe will push us out of the way, or push us towards our goals when it's time.

The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.

I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.

The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.

And I don’t blame him. I don’t even trust me.

Tis nothing when you are used to it.

The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.