If you don't burn out at the end of each day, you're a bum.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there’s no such thing as a Cautious Creative.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

The more creative you are the more trouble you're in. You have to be courageous!

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

The goal of leadership is not to be likable or loved but to be proven trustworthy and respected.

I searched through rebellion drugs diets mysticism religions intellectu-alism and much more only to begin to find ... that truth is basically simple-and feels good clean and right.

But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.

I got ex's all across the country and I owe everybody in town. I got bill collectors a callin' me up, and lawyers trying to track me down.

Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre.

You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.

Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.