Freedom Is Something You Have To Take

He Hated It When Adults Told Him He Only Felt The Way He Did Because He Was Young. As If Being Young Was Like Being Insane Or Drunk, Like The Convictions He Held Were Hallucinations Caused By A Mental Illness That Could Only Be Cured By Waiting Five Years.

Take It From Someone Who's Read The Wikipedia Entry: This Is How The Ottoman Empire Was Won: Madden Horsemen Fueled By Lethal Jet-black Coffee-mud.

We Don’t Care About What You Did Yesterday—we Care About What You’re Going To Do Tomorrow.

It May Be Hard To Monetize Fame, But It Is Impossible To Monetize Obscurity.

There Are People Already Sharing Ebooks Out There, .. And They Do It Simply Because They Love Books. You Don't Buy A Second Copy Of A Book, Cut The Spine Off, Lay Each Page On A Scanner, Run That .tif Through An Ocr (optical Character Reader), Hand Edit The Resulting Output For Errors And Then Post It Online If You Don't Love The Book. It Can Up To 80 Hours To Turn A Printed Novel Into An Ebook. I Figure If Someone Out There Is Willing To Put In 80 Hours Of Work Promoting My Book, Then I'd Prefer They Do It In A Way That Gives A Better Return To Me.