We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

If you can't sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million?

Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.

The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.

Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.