People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.

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

By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.

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

Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.

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.

Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.