I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

If you use language that divides people and makes people who agree with you really stoked and people who disagree with you disengaged then you're preaching to a choir, and you've lost any kind of relativity across the spectrum. So it's important to be subtle and understand that there's a lot more you can learn.

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.

You feel the weight of the world and you take things in and you are acting out from a place of being pushed and visceral. It's heavy. You can't be there all of the time.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.