The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.

Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.

If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we're simultaneously both cowardly and arrogant. We don't know the answers, so we assume they must not exist.

The message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy. One person is inevitably okay and the other is inevitably devastated.

We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled.