Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.