Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.

In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise.

Micro trends matter more than macro ones, but most of all, people matter. Individual human beings with names and wants and interests.

Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.

Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.