The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.

Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.

...Suddenly normal wasn't good enough.

With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

That’s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.

It was even odds that the thing I was the most afraid of didn't actually exist at all.

After all those neurochemicals are drained out, it takes a while for them to replenish so on the back end of flow state...I can barely string sentences together. I become stupid.

A woman is a flower.

Great. Darcy is the ruler of our school. Prety soon, Julius is going to be like Singapore - you'll get a $500 fine for chewing gum or making out in the hallways.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.

My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.

Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself

You gotta *be* country music - you can't just sing it.