I will say that I don't expect anybody to do anything that makes them feel uncomfortable. Or makes them feel like they're putting themselves in a bad position with their job.

There are people out there that feel there are injustices being made and happening in the USA on a daily basis.

The goal is to keep the dialogue open. There are issues in the USA that a lot of people feel strongly about. The goal is just to fix those issues. To make progress on those issues.

We're very aware that you cannot please everybody and that there's going to be backlash. There will always be backlash.

The goal is to talk about the issues that are happening in the USA with the ultimate goal of making change. Not just some rebellious act that we're trying to have against our country.

The moment to make your dreams come true is day before tomorrow, same time, called NOW.

Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'.

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal.

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I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.

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The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

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It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.