“Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.”

“Faith — what is this emotion but a desperate attempt to escape from mind-burning fear?”

“Any journalist worth his salt, should have to study literature to some extent.”

“Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.”

“Ego & Hype have no place in business.”

“You've got to be willing to read other people's code, and then write your own, then have other people review your code. You've got to want to be in this incredible feedback loop where you get the world-class people to tell you what you're doing wrong…”

“I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings.”

“… real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.”

“What we call unfaithfuless: our attempt for once to get out from behind our own face, our desperate hope of eluding the definitive.”

“The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.”