Everyone expects me to do certain things.

The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.

Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with.

There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it.

It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.

I can't wait to wake up and try something new. I can't sleep at night because I want to try something new.

The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.

You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it.

If you worry about missing the boat, remember the Titanic!

Is this a kissing book?

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression.

Being interested is more important than being interesting.

I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose.

Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet.

I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

I kind of take Hilary as a role model because she started out at about the same age. She hadn't done much before starting her series, and I haven't either.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'