And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.

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.

See beauty everywhere, and let your heart dance with it.

The closer one gets to the speed of light, the slower time travels. The exact thing is true when completing a book.

My happiness is not dictated on this business. Once I realized that, everything kind of changed.

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.

The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves.

I really like the bohemian look, and I'm a great fan of mixing vintage and modern.

Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.