Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.

Thing is: the internet's made of IP addresses, opinions, and assholes. It's what's there. That's the basic equipment.

It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems.

Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.

Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.

Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.'

Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their faith or their sexuality. It’s a pointless exercise that can never be anything but acrimonious and will only highlight unnecessary amounts of difference about things that ultimately don’t really matter. Buy the steak you like, worship the god you love, neck with the people that you treasure and don’t worry about the numbers.