The threat of failure shouldn't kill the fun of dreaming.

First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something.

I wish I could go to Paris right now.

You have to be free to fail in this world.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.

Ecstatic. How about that for a one-word answer? You hate to overstate it, but those kids have a great chemistry. They're working so hard on doing things right. (Overall) I'm so happy for the kids. We had tremendous efforts all around the place.