An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

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.

He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.

Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.

Lady Luck smiles on those who continue their efforts

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

I love Neil Finn. I've loved everything he's done since Split Enz.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.