You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again.