Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

It's just a goatee. That sounds kind of weird. A soul patch? I don't know how 'soul' it is.

Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.

I think that's probably the most devastating thing - when someone who is larger than life winds up a shadow of themselves in a hospital bed.

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

Dark circles are my charisma though.

I'm militantly anti-drug abuse but love everything Keith Richards and some other drug goofballs do.