Meaningful relationships are two-way, and that means constantly looking for ways to improve your customers' lives.
I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.
I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.
It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.
I want to go about like the light-footed goats.
The experiments made on the mutual electrical relations of bodies have taught us that they can be divided into two classes: electropositive and electronegative. The simple bodies which belong to the first class, as well as their oxides, always take up positive electricity when they meet simple bodies or oxides belonging to the second class; and the oxides of the first class always behave with the oxides of the other like salifiable bases with acids.
I'm just here so I won't get fined.