All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

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.

They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I might be a vampire so I don't give a shit. I'll heal

A writer's job is done once the lines touch reader's forbidden chords.

I think I made a lot of sacrifices.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction.

The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.