Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

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.

There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.

Jesus, Made in Heaven, assembled on earth.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

You are just your intelligence.

To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit

I'm a guy who's all about peace, love, and happiness. I'm a bit of a hippie.

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.

My 12-year-old daughter said to me, "Enough with the subtitles, Daddy, for crying out loud." Because they always seem to cloud the issue rather than clarify it.

Children are like a book which we should write in and which we should read.