Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

There’s nothing you’ve ever been successful at that you didn’t work on every day.

I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth.

You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.