The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.

My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge, stopped building on ambiguity and ignorance, and instead realized that I knew nothing, not even the things I thought I knew.

I'm never going to be Tolstoy.

I'm not even the coolest one of my friends. I'm just the guy who sat down and wrote everything down. Like I know plenty of people who do crazier stuff than I do.

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

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.

You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie.