“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”

“The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can’t see each other.”

“Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.”

“Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.”

“Do not siphon gas with your mouth.”

“Look forward to the wonderment of growing up, raising a family and driving by the gas station where the popular kids now work.”

“the fog was fog and yet was not fog. it was liquid and solid, then gas, then a roiling putrescence expanding like a balloon blown with filth.”