“If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.”
“Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't”
“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
“If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.”
“If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.”
“There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”