When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.

When my stepfather died, I just kind of fell apart. I felt pretty vulnerable, like there literally could be no tomorrow.

I'm never very good with marks. They're always like, 'You're not on your mark'. I was like, 'Oh, it's that thing you put on the ground? Yeah, I don't pay attention to it.'

I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.

I want Virgin to be as well-known around the world as Coca-Cola.

Taylor: what do you hear? Daisy: Nothing but rain

In other words, I step out of line and we're all dead.

This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.