"I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker."

“When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.”

“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.”

“Getting carried away is stupid, it won't get me anywhere. -Nana Komatsu”

“I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.”

“I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.”

“My team in Orlando was a team full of people who nobody wanted, and I was the leader and I led that team with a smile on my face.”

Source : "Ex-Magic teammates ridicule Dwight Howard's leadership" by Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, www.usatoday.com. March 7, 2013.

“The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.”

“A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.”