If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

Time heals all things.

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.

I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas.

My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.