I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.

The thing that I think about the most, and is the most rewarding to me, is the whole past. That I kind of went from nothing to something and I did it on my own, and I did it through hard work and smarts.

Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.

As a general rule, whenever guys have problems approaching girls, it's because they're afraid of rejection or they're afraid of something specific. The way that you get over a fear like that is you figure out what the worst is that can happen.

It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.

Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.

TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a little bit different. [With] movies, the medium has more constraints, so it was just about what stories are the most cinematic and the best resolution.