A book is a loaded gun.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.

I am blessed with 365 days of thanksgiving and answered prayer.

The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

Some of the media is fantastic, I have to say, they're honest and fantastic, but much of it is not.

The First Insight Theory: Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet.

With this face, I need all the deals I can get.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

The brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?