As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

The banking collapse was caused more than anything by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation rather than by greed.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence and the downward spiral begins.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

There is no winning or losing but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in whether it's a fantasy game the Wild West secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

When I'm writing I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived you know?

For me I'd rather have an intense experience than not.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.