“It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.”

“This long-tail distribution of returns is why it's important to be bold. Big winners pay for so many experiments.”

“Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success.”

“When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.”

“This might be the most important question for every creator and maker in the world: how do you make something new if most people just like what they know? Is it possible to surprise with familiarity?”

“This sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.”

“There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It d...”

“The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.”

“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. ...”

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

“Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.”

“Everyone lives in two worlds, Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. Theres the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, th...”

“When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.”

“It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong.”

“The mere observation that something is popular, or even that it became so rapidly, is not sufficient to establish that it spread in a manner that resembles a virus. Popularity on the internet is dr...”