"It is a profound truth that the ocean of adversity cannot drown the spirit that resolves to stay afloat — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To dream is to realize that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"The greatest deception is forgetting that the purest joy is found in giving without expectation."

"The spark of ambition becomes a blaze of accomplishment only through disciplined persistence. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"Every time you get a movie, you get a medical. So you know, you know you're alright for a couple of weeks."

"Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art."

"Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in."

"I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it."