You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.

The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about.

It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.