I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much written for them.

The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.

In training, there is no winning or losing. There is only learning.

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.

General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.

Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

The thing that I think about the most, and is the most rewarding to me, is the whole past. That I kind of went from nothing to something and I did it on my own, and I did it through hard work and smarts.