It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly without having to go through a middle man, the entire economics of the publishing business changes.

Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display their identity by their stance on what they are writing about. Criticism should never be about the critic, but thats what it has become, and that’s why no one cares about them anymore.

Failure instructs, failure improves. Failure shouldn't deter you.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.