Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.
It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn’t online, it doesn’t exist.
Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.
You’re ready. Start making stuff.
If you want fans, you have to be a fan first.
Copying is about reverse-engineering.
Become a documentarian of what you do.
When people give advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.
Do good work and share it with people.
Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
Don’t think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.
Inertia is the death of creativity.
Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.
If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.
In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.
The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best – write the story you want to read. The same principle applies to your life and your career:.
Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.
Unless you are actually a ninja, a guru, or a rock star, don’t ever use any of those terms in your bio. Ever.
We found the future, like birds fly into windows.
Every artist gets asked the question, ‘Where do you get your ideas?’ The honest artist answers, ‘I steal them.’