Creativity is not to be rudely shoved into being

Things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow.

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

If your work appeals to everyone, it moves no one

The life you want doesn't exist. You have to make it up.

If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone — they have a potential to gain so much more.

You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know

We're supposed to be the people who make culture, not decorate culture.

Put your weird in your work!

Be the light that inspires others to dream.

I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the bravery, the hardihood, the sense of honor, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands.

Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

I love the little suckers; they're so cute. But I love sleep so much, and I worry about everything.

We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

You should never ask actors about politics.

inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

I shall be a good politician. Even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else, for that matter.

Be kind to each other.

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.