It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems.

Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.

Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.

Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You’re Either Lying Or Crazy.

Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.

Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.

Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.

People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.

Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.

Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.

I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude..

Maybe it was our shared trauma, or maybe it was a combination of things, but I felt warmth emenate from my heart and spread throughout my chest.

You have the power. You have the magic to transform the world

Most people are afraid of failing. I think there's nothing wrong in failing.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think that I meant that I lived in Brooklyn, and I would have to clarify that.

Vampires are very sexy right now. It's kind of disgusting. It's kind of a bandwagon.

I have the most incredible parents and they didn't put pressure on me. I grew up in a house and no matter what they thought of things, it was always about my choice.

... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.

If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?