“The media, when it's functioning properly, protects the public against...” — Ryan Holiday Quote

“The media, when it's functioning properly, protects the public against marketers and their ceaseless attempts to trick people into buying things.”

“We need to separate marketing messages from content. We need to enforce a clear line between 'editorial' and 'advertising.'”

“Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks - unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games.”

“The greats - they protect their sleep because it's where the best work comes from. They say no to things. They turn in when they hit their limits. They don't let the creep of sleep deprivation undermine their judgment.”

“Growth-hacking is about scalability - ideally, you want your marketing efforts to bring in users, which then bring in more users.”

“Virality is not an accident. It is engineered. And that's why growth hackers beat traditional marketers.”

“I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up.”

“'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.”

“I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.”

“I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.”

“I was born in Norwich, which I still regard as the most beautiful city in the world, despite the attempts by the Luftwaffe to destroy it in the Second World War.”