I'm a typical California boy.

I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.

Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

I'm a typical California boy.

I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

I always found that Trump had this power about him.

To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.

As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.

I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

Thank you Lord that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

I just can't wait for the future.

At Tesla, we don't go into a community and think we're going to sell one or two cars.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

The eye is much more dynamic than any camera.

I got rejected from journalism school!

You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.

I used to share my everyday life on the first social media platforms, and I had a pretty big following.

Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.

I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.