"Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness."

“If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com

“I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.”

“I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.”

“Some people can rap, some can sing, some can write, some can do all of the above.”

“But give up my business? The same business I'd built from the ground up with my own two hands and designer Louis Vuittons? The same business for which I'd sacrificed blood, sweat, and tears? Well, maybe not sweat and tears, but there was blood. Lots of blood. Give it up? Not likely. Besides, what else would I do? I totally should've gone to Hogwarts when I had the chance.”

“We need to start prioritizing people, not polar bears.”

Source : "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

“Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.”

Source : Jack Levine, Milton Wolf Brown (1989). “Jack Levine”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

“I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.”