My favorite random email I got was from some guy who wrote: "Mr. Max, with the hope of a six year old on the night before Christmas asking about Santa, I ask the same question: Do you really exist?

If you want to be seen as courageous by some and hated by others, just say what you really think.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.

Before you're famous it's stuff that seems like it'd be really cool, but once you get it, you realize it's not bad, but it's kind of hollow and meaningless.

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

As a general rule, whenever guys have problems approaching girls, it's because they're afraid of rejection or they're afraid of something specific. The way that you get over a fear like that is you figure out what the worst is that can happen.