Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.

Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out.

The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on

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.