And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.

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.

Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.

Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

I don't really have any dream roles. It's just things, which come up.

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

No movie influenced me more to go after my dreams than 'Flashdance.' After seeing it, I took 15 dance lessons a week. I cut all my sweatshirts. I did the 'Maniac' thing.

I feel the matter of my heart being transformed, metallized, in an optimism of steel.

Few know how to be old.

She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty