“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.”

“When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.”

“There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.”

“People who copy you will always be one step behind.”