In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.

If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.

Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom

If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.

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

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.