Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.
Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient.
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.