"You can鈥檛 love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd can鈥檛 love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn鈥檛 scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon."

"The fact is, the old clich%uFFFDs work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clich%uFFFDs are clean and tidy."

"Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice."

"The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after you鈥檝e 'made it'."

"Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it. It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go."

"When I see somebody 'suffering for their art', it%uFFFDs usually a case of them not knowing where that red line is, not knowing where the sovereignty lies."

"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."

"To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately."

"Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others."

"The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank."

"Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse."

"My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow."