I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.

Those times in life when you're terrified are the mastery times.

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

The era of ‘yes’ has begun.

i'm a perfectionist, so i'm never satisfied with myself. i've always been psychotic about that kind of stuff--in a good way. i'm very disciplined. like the food and the whole thing, i'm always looking to "how can i eventually just turn into a ball of light and fly off the planet?". until that happens and God basically pull the blinds back, i will not be satisfied... if i found out that if i ate pine nuts for the next month i could see God, i'd be eating pine nuts.