For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.

Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push - in just the right place - it can be tipped.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.