It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that's the moment between you and remarkable.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.

If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.

Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again