The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.

You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

What finally convinced me to go ahead was simply that I was so unhappy not going ahead.

I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.

In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.