If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.

We're all of us haunted and haunting.

Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.