You also really want to take the time to think about how the market is going to evolve.You need a market that's going to be big in 10 years.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

Obsess about the quality of the product.

In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.

There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.

If the United Nations is not as united as it should be, that is because it is a reflection of the world we live in.

All the best times in music were rebellious. I mean, even like Elvis, people didn't want their daughters paying attention to him. He was considered too sexual!

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

Do I know my lines? As I'm getting older, they're getting harder to learn. The old brain cells are deteriorating.

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.