Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

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.

Revenge and rational thought never sleep together.

Roses are red, Violettes are bllue, Valentines day is consumerous crap, now don't you have ironing to do"Unlikely thing to read in a valentines day card

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

If you have God's presence, you have favor. One minute of God's presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.