The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I think that's actually cool. Sometimes it's worrisome when you feel they badly misinterpret it, but it just says that they're thinking, and they're bringing their own interpretation to bear on it. [...] That's part of the wonderful thing about putting words into the world, and if I was worried about that, I couldn't be a writer.

The successful are those who have been given opportunities.

Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.