We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

I'm not the beautiful one.

I get sidetracked very easily.

I’m afraid to close my eyes, I’m afraid to open them

I'm trying to drink more water.

You have first flown with your mind to every goal you have ever achieved.

A rose’s beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed.

Leave no path untaken.

The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine.

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

I discovered science, and in the process I hope I became a better environmentalist.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.

It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.

Have you two made friendly with the privates yet? (Eros)