Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will make a way.

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

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.