“Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.”

“Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use do the work you want to see ...”

“Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.”

“If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”

“Life is a lonely business”

“Life is a lonely bussiness”

“Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.”

“Strike all the adjectives from your bio. If you take photos, you're not an 'aspiring' photographer, you're not an 'amazing' photographer either. You're a photographer. Don't get cute. Don't brag. J...”

“The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning in front of others.”

“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”

“I used to hold you as my everything,And so I built my castles in your lands,But you proved to me your inadequacies,With this, how will my castles stand?”