I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Black is bountiful. White is witful. Both are beautiful.

If women only knew the extent of their power!

Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it's never about the clothing.

We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod.