Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, cannot be killed or swept aside.

Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

If you're thinking about the idea in the shower. If you're thinking about the idea while you're walking your dog, there's probably something to it.

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.

I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.

I've been ignoring my feelings lately. That works pretty well. Might also settle for less this week, just to try it out.

the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.

We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy

Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living.