It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot. - Steven Pressfield

Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

If the upper realm is, as Plato suggested, the sphere of perfect love, truth, justice, and beauty, then the artist seeks to call down the magic of this world and to create, by dint of labor and luck, the closest-to-sublime simulacra of those qualities that he or she can.

I love a guy who knows how to bitch. Any moron can gripe about chow or rotations, but someone who can get exercised over architecture is my kind of dude.