The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best - write the story you want to read. The same principle applies to your life and your career.

When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.

Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.

We found the future, like birds fly into windows.

Become a documentarian of what you do.

Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.