The roller coaster came to a stop and a good friend got off, but what a ride we'd taken together. It had been one hell of a trip.

This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

When it come to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.

Trust doesn't mean that you trust that someone won't screw up— it means you trust them even when they do screw up.

The goal, then, is to uncouple fear and failure—to create an environment in which making mistakes doesn’t strike terror into your employees’ hearts.

WHEN PEOPLE SHOW YOU THEIR TRUE COLORS, DON'T GO COLOR BLIND

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.

We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

I do feel like I have a sense of the times. A lot of the things America is experiencing now, I feel like I have lived through. I think there is a cause for concern.

To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.