Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.

I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this.

The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics