The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend on superior minorities.
Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.
The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.
It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.
I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it. But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.
Teach your heart that this is destiny
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.
After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.