The status quo doesn’t shift because you’re right. It shifts because the culture changes. And the engine of culture is status.

The status quo sucks.

The writer's task is to invent the reality.

out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

Your job isn’t to do your job. Your job is to decide what to do next.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Your job isn’t to know the how, it’s to know the what and to be open to discovering, and receiving, the how.

I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and provincial prejudices. It is not my job to lull you with a false sense of the rightness of the universe. This wonderful and terrible occupation of recreating the world in a different way, each time fresh and strange, is an act of revolutionary guerrilla warfare. I stir the soup. I inconvenience you. I make your nose run and your eyeballs water.

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.