I love the way a freshly sharpened pencil feels on paper, but I still write mostly with a keyboard. How do you preserve your thoughts?

Your partner doesn’t give a shit about your career.

Only in advertising can half an hour more effort mean the difference between the bliss of success and the misery of mediocrity.

It’s up to you.

If you can succeed without setting aside lots of time to work at it, then you are a better person than I am.

I recently rediscovered the wonderful mental lubricant called Pandora. What’s your favorite mental jump-starter?

Get back to work. There’s nothing to see here.

Yesterday my three-year-old son asked me, “Daddy, how do grownups know what to do?”

I just couldn’t resist posting that one.

I literally cannot remember the last time I made it through a whole day without seeing a typo or misuse of our language.

One route to great creative runs straight through Embarrassment.

Are you a person who stays in touch with friends from your past? If so, how?

If you’re waiting for what you really want, you’re gonna be waiting a long, long time.

The future is a lot more intimidating as a unit than as a series of units.

Random Tip of the Day: Add cocoa to Starbucks coffee. It’s right there by the sugar.

You will ultimately be judged more by how than what.

What is your favorite city, and what are the top three reasons it’s your favorite?

My favorite city remains New York.

Reasons:

  • Food

  • Public transportation

  • It’s stocked with the most talented people on earth

The people are way more important than everything else.

Think before you hit “Send.”

Keep a pen and pad on you at all times. Because your best ideas are irrelevant if no one sees them.

Some places just have better creative energy than others.

So I’m headed to New York (not to be confused with Liberty City).

What is your go-to guilty pleasure? (Besides porn, of course.)

Thank you, Liza, for your help with today’s question. You’ve earned your T.A.’s merit sash.

Clients. Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em.