Your best authorial self is always one about to ruin the story.

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

You can feel good about failure. Failure means you did something. You finished the story even if it wasn't what you'd hoped. Failure means you're learning. Growing. Doing.

Enter the story as late as you can.

Write til your fingers bleed.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.

We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

Leadership can mean defiance.

We think the future is robots and hovercars and maybe it’s really here.

Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.

All hail the light, the dark, and the grey.

You should always strive to make amazing things happen in your life

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.

A work of art is an exaggeration.

I want to get away from "It's either government or the market." That's a false dichotomy.

You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

We gotta be willing to seek direction ... we've gotta be willing to look within.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

I live with the people I've always lived with. I'm quite content.

I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.