Write the book you want to read

The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.

Copying is about reverse-engineering.

Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.

The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.

Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom