Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time.

When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.