Why are you taking your breasts away?” -Dane “Cernunnos” Hearne
When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.
The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.
People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.
We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.
the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.
As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.
There can be no true discipline without love. . . only compliance.
Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will.
The second and sometimes most important part of the creative process is performing it live, so that the work can evolve to a different level and it is also important to make that connection with your audience as they are the reason why you make this work in the first place.
I believe, and I may be wrong, the system sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Prison is supposed to rehabilitate, but they don't do that in a lot of cases.