The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

Playing safe is very risky.

Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.

It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.

The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.

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.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.