Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.

This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.

Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do?

Schiller moves upward. Goethe comes from up above.

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

We will link farmers to global markets. We will give the world the Taste of India.

German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.

Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.

I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence.