Weddings are such a microcosm of norms, of traditions, and in those traditions, there are a lot of things that have been sort of codified: misogyny and ownership and the patriarchy. So what happens when two very, very disparate families come together for one wedding?

You live with your family for awhile, and then you move out into the world, and you still have your family; you just don't get to see them every night when you go home for dinner.

I think so much of adolescence is about finding your tribe, and what kids today have that we did not have is access to the whole world.

I'm on Twitter every single week. It's sort of like being a playwright standing in the back of the theater.

I was certainly a kid who believed he could make a difference in the world. I was, as a young person, cooking up plans. My hero is Billie Jean King, and the thing that I find so impressive about Billie Jean is that she took something as banal as playing tennis and used it to change the world. She really did.

I believe that young kids have agency and can make a difference in the world.

My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.

I can't go to a restaurant or a hotel now without looking at the architecture and wondering how it would look if a character jumped off something - or crashed through it.

Paint the essential character of things.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I do think that the attitude of the show is about tolerance. Everybody is different, and the show embraces that. The character SpongeBob is an oddball. He's kind of weird, but he's kind of special.