I'm horrible at concepts. My life is random and my inspiration is random. But it's all written in a very specific time frame that says a lot about my life at the time.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

The key to liberation resides within our very own hands and heart.

Sulphurous wind gusted in his wake the dust of the street swirled and the folds of his black coat flapped against his thin body.

I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want to do directing. I want to do all of it. I like it. And I want to do producing.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved.

I love when a TV show, or entertainment in general, makes me feel something; be it positive, be it negative, be it happiness, be it awkward, uncomfortable if it can make me feel, it's done it's job.

One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.