A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

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.

Honesty is a great thing, if tempered with love.

You ought to the read stories of how people have endured the worst situation. You will find the strength to survive life.

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.