I don't expect the government to solve my problems, but at least I expect them to understand it.
With Twitter, it's as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.
Have confidence in your ideas before they even exist.
I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain. I said`[Bill Shawn] pays very well, but a lot of my pieces don't get in,' and that was true of most of the writers there. But he pays you for them, that was very nice of him. This guy didn't think it was very nice. He figured, `Oh, my God, that's more of my investment gone,' and paying money to writers for not printing them. That became, apparently, one of his weapons against Shawn when he - in the corporate skirmishes that went on. It was a bad mistake on my part.
When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I move around a podium as easily as if it were my living room and although I am keyed up I am not anxious. I feel as if I were doing what I should be doing - the feeling I have when intent in my studio.
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i. e. , subject matter) for you to think about.