You have to be willing to be a live performer, if you want to make money as an independent.
Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.
You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.
The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.
In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.
However bad your life appears, things could be far, far worse
There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
I love all of you men, but you women even more!