My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

Michael Phelps

Of two evils, choose neither.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Slow help is no help.

Proverb

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Susan Neiman

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

William Penn

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

Quentin Tarantino

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Albert Einstein

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

Cassandra Clare

The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.

James Denton

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

David Herbert Lawrence

Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.

Caprice Bourret

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

Sheena Easton