If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

I'm tired of being tired of being tired of being.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

Why is everyone telling me to do it? I already did it.

The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.

Everything I need to know is revealed to me. Everything I need comes to me. All is well in my life.

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.

I've been going around the world; I've been to China, I sang at the General Assembly, the Security Council.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.