You have to fight for what you need to fight for.

The rule of surfing is never tell anyone where you go.

I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.

My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory.

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.

The good thing about directing yourself is that you get over yourself.

I'm a little kid at heart, so my eyes light up when everything is lit.

I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things.

For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen

All fates are ‘worse than death’.

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

Never rest on your oars as a boss. If you do, the whole company starts sinking.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

Only a true friend would be that truly honest.

I'm infamous, a joke. It doesn't make me feel good, because I'm a genuine person, but I don't let it get to me, because I am who I am.