Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer

You know, if I look at an auditorium full of high school students and the big man on campus and his girlfriend are busy talking while the lecture's going on, the rest of the room is going to do it because they're powerful sneezers. They have influence. They reach out to a whole bunch of people in a way that makes the idea of being disrespectful spread.

You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.

Treat different people differently. Anything else is a compromise.