And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.

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.

A lot of people travel because they are unhappy, but travelling does not necessary makes one happier. Sometimes it exacerbates the unhappiness, the loneliness.

I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, "You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

It’s the way I walk through the world, carrying that fear, that the beloved will go, will die, and that I will be the one to blame.

People would tell me sometimes that I should model, but I was like, I dont know!

I want to give Michael Moore a run for his money.

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.

All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."

The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.