Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

Don't save the canary. Fix the coal mine.

Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.

I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.

If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.