The best way to honor someone who has said something smart and useful is to say something back that is smart and useful. The other way to honor them is to go do something with what you learned.

If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.

Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.

We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either.

I'm not sure there's any number of Facebook likes that can replace a hug.

It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.