“Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.”

“Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.”

“All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.”

“When the future looks dark, do not panic, because future does not exist yet; by using your intelligence, you can always turn it to bright!”

“Competition isn't a bad thing. Somebody can always do it better and that somebody is you.”

“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.Tarantino - you can criticize everything that Quentin does - but nobody writes Tarantino stuff like Tarantino. He is the best Tarantino writer there is, and that was actually the thing that people responded to - they’re going ‘this is an individual writing with his own point of view’.There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better - there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can.”