Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless.

Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.