But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be.

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.