A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."

Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.

Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?

Your day is your week is your month is your year.

Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

Fear is at the heart of most of our worst choices.

Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing.

The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.

Was there ever any question on how much I could take? You kept feeding me your bullshit hoping I would break.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.

Just be nice to people and be someone people want to work with because if people don't like working with you it's just not going to work out.

This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

Half the people in the world have never made a phone call... half.