And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

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.

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.

Time is very important to art and if you don't have the time to select, art goes out the window.

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

It's hard being part of a married couple in a band.

I have more money than God, but not as much as Oprah.

Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.