Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.
The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house
The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes.
Entrepreneurs are always super optimistic. If they weren't they wouldn't be entrepreneurs.
Television is the third parent.
No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books.
Leaving high school. It's sad and you're going to miss all your friends. You're going to miss your life and you've been doing that for the past four years, and it's comfortable. But now, there's something possibly bigger on the horizon, just new and fresh and exciting. I think we all kind of felt like that.
Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.