Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice needlessly loud. “I have a Churchillian relationship with alcohol: I can crack jokes and govern England and do anything I want to do. Except not drink.

Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.

Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered?