"I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not."

“That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.”

“Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness.”

“People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.”

“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”

Source : Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

“The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, [etc. ] the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.”

“As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing - just as, one day, you found yourself simply driving without thinking about how to do it.”

Source : Betty Edwards (1989). “Drawing on the right side of the brain: a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence”, Jeremy P. Tarcher

“I've run out of mates that haven't had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I've been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.”

Source : "Nick Moran: My family values" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2013.

“I'm not mean, just aggressive.”