Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

The only way to find your voice is to use it. It’s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

Don't worry about doing research. Just search.

You can't find your voice if you don't use it.

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner

Impossibility is possible till it becomes impossible

This is [her] soul group.’What do you mean?’It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.

How are you still sane?""Who says I am? I only stopped asking myself the escape question when the walls started to answer me."Shit.

The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.

Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority.

Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

Perhaps only when people can enjoy their differences as a resource of cultural enrichment do they become truly civilized.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.