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.

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.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

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

No sheep wants to be first through the gate, but every sheep will be second.

Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want