Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.

Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.

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

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can't figure out why they can't make it spread.

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.