Always dream high. Never let it down by inconsistent efforts. Your relentless labour & integrity make you successful in the long run.

Literature is one kind of aesthetic politics.

Your work is your destiny.

Every human in this world is greedy.

Many people are living life by default.

I am blessed with a good metabolism, and as long as I work out, carbs don't add to my weight. If I need a leaner, meaner look for a film, I go off carbs for a bit.

Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.

The good is the enemy of the best.

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.

(Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to.

When I saw the script [of The Man], I saw the character and knew I could do the character. It's a relationship movie, which is also what I love to do. That's what attracts me to projects.