A life's work should be based on love.

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.

You can laugh! But people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!

There are times when the way has to pass through sufferings to cleanse ourselves from the burden of the past.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

I don't think anything will change until Americans revolt and get it into their heads that they need to be informed voters instead of just listening to the paid political ads.

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

Game calls cant be just, Oh, by the way, as part of a larger discussion.

Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.