One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

I love dancing.

Develop a sense of the brotherhood of man. Look upon each person as your own brother. There is only one caste the caste of humanity. All of us belong to the human race so everyone is equal. Therefore love each one equally.

Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There's definitely a way to go about approaching it.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

As I start to think about what I want to do next, there are eight or nine networks I would be thrilled to work with. I remember developing at FX and the executives there telling me, 'We don't want to do shows that 20 million people kind of like; we want to do the show that 2 million people really like.' That's such a refreshing thing to hear.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it. It’s on your side, you know?

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.