“I've done it before. It won't be the last time. You're going to go years where you just don't win. That's okay, as long as you keep trying to improve.”

“Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.”

“If you like what you are writing, just write. Try to keep going before you stop to take a break. Keep going back before too much time has passed. And just stay with it.”

“If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.”

“If you're going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don't win, you're usually no worse off than if you hadn't played.”

“You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened.
Your co-workers ask
if everything's okay and you tell them
you're just tired.
And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.”

“If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.”

“Do what you want to do,
And go where you're going to.
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you.”

“Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.”

“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.”