Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

To have a style is to be stuck.

We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

...you do not have too many boogeymen for me. You have just the right number.

Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.

When a person says only what others love to hear, he is largely liked; but if he loves to say what he likes only, then others hardly hear him.

The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.

Things are as bad as you fear they are. People are as bad as you think they are. The Universe does not care.

In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of their way when they back up.

I still have drive, but everything is relative.

I’ve got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can’t go to Sing Sing with a green face.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.