Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

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

If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.

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.

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

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

I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking about a certain topic - a very specific aspect of a certain topic in some cases. And second, they got really good at figuring out what they had to say about it.