It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to actualize them.

If I'm moving too fast or coming on too hard...

When we look back from the vantage point of sobriety, many of us realize that when drinking we often felt like a fake, a fraud, and a phony. That’s because we were. – p. 74

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?

There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley.

You. Me. Exorcist. -Bones

The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

If you miss the moment, you miss your life.

It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"

If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple.