300 Arguments

What’s worse: Offending someone or lying to someone? Saying something stupid when it’s your turn, or not saying anything? Tell me which, and I’ll tell you your problem.

I annotated my friend’s book manuscript with scribbles on every page. She annotated mine with a single note: This needs to be better. She trusted that I would know what to do, and I did.

You aren’t the same person after a good night’s sleep as you are after a sleepless night. But which person is you?

I don’t love writing; I love having a problem I believe I might someday write my way out of.

It isn’t so much that geniuses make it look easy; it’s that they make it look fast.

Every success story can be told as a series of failures.

Everything has to be paid for, especially money.

Respect the one-hit wonder not for his one hit but for all the days he must have suffered afterward, trying for another.

There are two kinds of people: those who can’t perform the act when they’re sad and those who perform it only to escape sadness. I have a theory that the second kind of person lives longer.