If you have no wish, how can it possibly come true?

I don't like offending people, and it's easy to offend people when you don't know as much as they do. This group knows more about what it takes to lead in this way than I ever will. My goal is to push people, but I need to do it from a place of respect.

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.

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.