It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'

Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.

I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.

I like to do things that are new, where I feel the sense of discovery.

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.

The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.

Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.

I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.

I improvise therefore I exist!

All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?

Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.

A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.

Nothing can be perfect... even the analysis of the human behavior. - If you think they can be perfect and 100% Accurate...

I hate wasting people's time.

I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.

God's grace will never be available to you to become another person. He created to be you - the best "you" you can be! Forget about trying to be someone else.

Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.

Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.