We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.

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.

Leaving knots untied and scattering seeds to distract them will only work on vampires with OCD.

How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.

Talent alone can't give you a gold medal.There is practise, there is hard work and there is a will to succeed.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

Oh yeah, waiting sucks.

I love commercials. I love to hate commercials, too. I talk back to them.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor.

I don't believe there's a hole in the ground with demons in it but I could be wrong. Hell is all around us - it's the way we treat each other and the way we treat the Earth. We already live in it.