“After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.”

“We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.”

“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”

“Work isnt work unless you would rather be doing something else.”

“Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. Ignore the authors who say ‘Oh, my God, what word? Oh, Jesus Christ…’, you know. Now, to hell with that. It’s not work. If it’s work, stop and do something else.”

“How do you know when you're 'There'? Do you just get up one morning, pour yourself a glass of juice without breaking it, come to take a bite of your nicely grilled bagel and... boom! 'There' is right there, staring you in the face - that moment when you realize you have everything that you've worked for, and you finally find yourself utterly fulfilled. What happens after that? Do you go into the new world of 'What Else Is There", or do you finish your bagel and live happily ever after?”