I used to walk down the street like I was a star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be.

You need patience, discipline, and agility to take losses and adversity without going crazy.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Time does not heal all wounds, but it teaches us how to live with them.

To create is to resist—to resist silence, to resist forgetting.

The aim of proof is to understand, not just to verify.