I never really sympathised with Peter Parker.
The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.
Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.
An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn't want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.
Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.
Every time you tell someone that you are going to fly and they talk about gravity, that is doubt.
The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as well as karma, causality, former and future life, and the possibility for becoming enlightened, then it's safe to skirt the danger of nihilism, which would be, I don't exist because Buddha said I have no self, and therefore I have no problem because I don't exist. That would be a bad misunderstanding. But in those cultures, it would not be as easy to have that understanding as it would be here in the west, where we really are nihilistic.