If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.

If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.