Unless you have a huge ego, I think it requires a tremendous amount of bravery to keep putting yourself out there, knowing that you will get rejected most of the time.

I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a dark comedy about infidelity, for example!

I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's essential to the human condition, and relatable.

Too many people get caught up in the idea that they are experts in their field and forget to keep growing and learning.

Being drunk leads smart people to do stupid things, which is what is so interesting.

You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to explore the ways each character is villainous and heroic.

I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.

You can never know anything for sure.

I think there's a lot of power in admitting that you don't know everything.

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

Don't give up on each other.

As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.

But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'

I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have.

It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult.

No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real. And it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.