None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we’d naturally do.
Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.
I feel like my life has always been the ‘Hey Look at Me Show.’ I’m not apologetic about that.
Technology changes the medium. I grew up on watching a box in my living room that made my parents happy. After something is gone, the dust will settle and I’ll see what’s next.
Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that’s how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It’s a good guess. It’s the best quess ever.
Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.
I grew up on network sitcoms. If those are gone when I’m 65 years old, I would never forgive myself for not stepping up to that plate, as often as possible. I’m already bummed out that DVDs are dying off because, in my 20s, those were a huge thing.
Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don’t get beaten up, you’re invited to parties, and everybody likes you.
What’s important is passion, investment, and people laughing out loud as they work.
I say what’s in my head, and I’m on honest ground. That is worth so much, and I think it does make my job, as a writer, easier. It makes it possible for me to give people stuff that they like.
I’m from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
Don’t be so hard on yourself, don’t put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you’ll be perfect when you’re dead.
Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.
I surround myself with loyalists and people that I would die for. I just would rather die than make bad stuff for people because I’m a terrible dishwasher and a terrible lover and a terrible pet owner.
You have to just look at it like Titanic: I know the ship sinks, but this is a love story.
Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego’s regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society’s longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.