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I was punching so far above my weight by merely hanging with these guys that I didn’t want to blow it by whining about how if we went to Times Square we could end up on the wrong end of a dude like Ramrod, the star of the exploitation pay-cable classic Vice Squad.

Tom Scharpling • It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

Bill Watterson speech: https://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

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When I hear 'artist', I think of someone who doesn't think it necessary to show up at work on time. More often than not their efforts, convinced as they are of their own genius, are geared more to giving themselves a hard-on than satisfying the great majority of dinner customers.

Anthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

I’ve always believed that, in any great story, the line between drama and comedy is blurred. I hate that we even have to label any movie or TV show as a comedy or drama. Mad Men, for example, was really funny. Breaking Bad was hilarious.

Judd Apatow • Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy

people not podcasts—I don’t have any go-to podcasts. I get interested in someone—a writer, a musician, a comedian, a chef, an entrepreneur, etc.—then I search what podcasts they’ve been on.

Billy Oppenheimer • The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To

I’ve always been a freak for the zealous pursuit of the better, especially where culture is concerned. I love the story of it, and also the motive. So that, too, is what this book is—a celebration of the art that happens when instinct meets rigor.

Adam Moss • The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing

My theory is that proportion is key to everything. You’re making this TV show, and it gets really popular, and you have to stop at a certain point or it loses the magic.

hbr.org • Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager

There Was Some Essential “Me-Ness” In It

For years, the writer George Saunders tried to write technically perfect stories. “I wrote story after story,” Saunders writes in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, “and everything I wrote was minimal and strict and efficient and lifeless and humor-free, even though, in real life, I reflexively turned to humor at