The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on

If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.

I'm never going to be Tolstoy.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.