I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with them, so go figure.

I don't trust people who don't use profanity.

Usually when you do shows you're in the middle of the tour and you're all oiled up and it's just another stop. It's so much pressure for just three minutes. My stomach still hurts.

I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

If you're scared of dying you better not be scared to live.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

If we are a body, then we are on that is afflicted with an autoimmune disease.

The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

I believed that doing what the other person wanted was love. I did that, and for more than a thousand years I have regretted it. I don't want to repeat the same mistake.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can.

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.

There are two things you should never waste your time on: things that don't matter and people that think you don't matter.