The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.

Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.

I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.

I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery.

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.

The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.

Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'

I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.

When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.

You make me want to be.

I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

We can all learn from our failures. What I've learned is how much it hurts to fail.

We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

Sunday is a day given over by Americans to wishing that the themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.

I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age).

[D-Day] means to me a beginning of the freedom of Europe. The freedom was the achievement of the military adversaries of the Germans.

The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].

Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.