The poet John Ciardi pointed out, “Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at women and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want.

Calling one thing ‘literature’ and another ‘fiction’ is a way to create status where there is none.

It is better to ask for forgiveness then permission.

To put it simply, we think books are too important to leave to writers, and we want the wisest, most experienced, most knowledgeable people on earth to be able to effectively and easily share their wisdom with the world.

Hollywood, it’s just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with.

If you read the book, you’re not a journalist. You’re some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

The science of meditation is very clear and provides overwhelming evidence: even twenty minutes a day doing mindfulness meditation increases happiness, vitality, emotional stability, and focus. It also decreases irritability, anxiety, depression, blood pressure, and the stress hormone cortisol. Meditation induces a physiological relaxation response in your body that counteracts daily stress.

Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I’m at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.

The only thing that someone could say about me that would hurt me would be something that’s true that I don’t want to be.