When I first saw Emma Stone, it was like I woke up.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

Hate doesn't end hate. Love ends hate.

I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better—we'd have interracial bisexuality!

I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

After a while, you crave pajamas and a shaved head.

I'm right next to two beautiful women right now, so I'm going to sit right back down.

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha.Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting, ' said a voice in his head.

Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.

I do not like to write - I like to have written.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.

And the first king was a lucky soldier.