Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping.

My narrative is that I’ve never known what’s coming next-I still don’t. I fell down the right set of stairs and have been surrounded by people who have picked me up and said, “Let’s try this again.” It’s been one anxious block of uncertainty after another.

Small Changes Stick.

Put plainer, my sense is that western culture would be a damn sight poorer today if John Lennon had been forced to carry a goddamn BlackBerry.

Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.

I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can’t stop thinking about a certain topic – a very specific aspect of a certain topic in some cases. And second, they got really good at figuring out what they had to say about it.

By my reckoning, I only need about 200 more takeout coffee cups to complete my bitterly ironic mosaic of Al Gore.

Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I’m ‘into it.’

Personally, it’s changed my game – it’s how I think now. Can’t imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn’t do MMD.

Getting organized just means you’ve glued handles onto the various stuff in your life – you’ll still need to pick it up and carry it around from time to time.