Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.

'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?' 'Uh, ' Eliot said, 'I wouldn't go that far.'

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

[S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with blood from head to toe. Lee was lying on the floor, quietly pumping out his life through his throat.

Because knowledge does not need an academic greenhouse. It can bloom, anywhere.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.

The idea of the divine-human friendship originated with God. Had not God said first 'Ye are my friends?' (John 15:14)

The more you judge, the less you love.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

A-PLUS Act - allow states to operate like charter schools.

Keep hustling, something good will happen.

I tried my best [on audition for X-Files], and it worked out. I got the part. So I was flabbergasted.

I'm really keen to try things. I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.