Do not confuse location with direction. Location is where you are, direction is where you are going.

Scale yourself. Go beyond what you can do and what you know. Look at your content machine and make it work nonstop, seamlessly, and at scale with or without you.

We are faced with the incredible challenge of creating high quality content for a crowd of skimmers. The faster you understand this, the more effective your content tactics will become.

Personally, I believe in tools that close the gap between professionals and beginners, understanding that — push comes to shove — this is a world of beginners.

Text, images, and video are the paint swatches of 21st-century artists — with a single catch: this form of art has to communicate, engage, and sell.

Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve.

fingers of wind combed the lake into ridges—icy palm prints glistened wherever it rested

When we forgive, we're saying to our heart that we are ready to move on.

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

I try changing my surfing, which is the absolute worst thing you can do. Everyone surfs their own way. If I try to surf like someone else I look like a dork.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

If we don't become a country that makes things again, we won't have enough jobs for our people.

I get pretty dark sometimes, pretty bleak. But that passes.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.