Talent is being unabashedly and unapologetically fearless in the work that you do. The only difference between having talent and not having talent is fear.

Sometimes standing up for what you believe means standing down and allowing the universe to do its work.

Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie through their teeth.

The bigger the words the weaker the voice.

To find meaning in our lives we need consistent exposure to kids, elders and animals... cuz kids and animals aren't looking for it, and elders are the closest to finding it.

I don't write comedy. I write drama that's funny.

I love cheetahs. Every moment of every day is spent in fear of dying a terrible death yet they always carry themselves elegantly, remain loyal to their family, and never complain about anything.

I wish dogs understood: 'We're going in five minutes.

Stupidity is actually in a way the mark of intelligence - if you're not doing stupid things that defy logic you're probably not taking enough risks.

Out of all the medical advancements in human history I'm still most in awe of that tiny little piece of toilet paper that can stop a gushing razor cut in its tracks.

What I love about New York: the faster and more recklessly my cab driver drives the safer and all around better I feel.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the painin the world had found a voice

See people in the light of their potentials, not their problems.

Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

A master should be paid liberally, in order to secure a person properly qualified.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

One just soul can attain pardon for a thousand sinners.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'