The hunger will give you everything and it will take from you, everything. It will cost you your life, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about … - Hugh MacLeod

"If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain."

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

The more talented somebody is, the less they need the props. Meeting a person who wrote a masterpiece on the back of a deli menu would not surprise me. Meeting a person who wrote a masterpiece with a silver Cartier fountain pen on an antique writing table in an airy SoHo loft would seriously surprise me.