A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House.
I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.
You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.
What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible.
No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.
What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.
I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth
Fill your heart with as much love as you can, and don't hold it in.
If you get on the radio, people hear it, they buy the record. If you get on Spotify playlist nowadays, people hear it, they buy the record.