The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.

Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence

Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.

I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.

If you care too much about what others think then you ultimately become what you think they want you to be.

There's a thin line between destruction and creation.

I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.

Ah, ” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.

What better time to try something new than when you have nothing to lose.

Some things must remain the same in order for the universe to flow properly. One pebble dashed out across the ocean leaves a lifetime of ripples. They call it the butterfly effect.

Justice is the armed defense of innocent liberty.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.

I can't take another day of this.

I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.

Only the soul that loves is happy

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.