“Great ideas are very much 'of the moment,' and endlessly mulling them ...” — Michael Bastian Quote

“Great ideas are very much 'of the moment,' and endlessly mulling them over just takes up too much of your brain space and might block your next great idea. Act on it, give it away, or move on.”

“Guys look best when they have a healthy disrespect for their clothes.”

“I'm always much more inspired by random people on the street. I live down by NYU and The New School, and I'd almost say close your eyes and pull a student out, and they're gonna be a little bit cooler than the average celebrity.”

“We have to be able to execute early in games, whether it's a block, whether it's a throw, whether it's a catch, we have to be able to make plays.”

“Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.”

“I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.”