Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.

I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was.

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

No sheep wants to be first through the gate, but every sheep will be second.

Failure either ruins you, or turns you into the man you can become.

Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".