There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

I'm a sucker for double meanings in titles.

The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.

I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.

Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.

Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.

It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.

If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin would’ve changed his mind and places humans at the very bottom.

The lesser evil is also evil.

There are opportunities in every struggle. Look for these opportunities and make it great.

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.

A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.