But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

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.

Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher.“Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”Ecclesiastes 1:2

Heaven is fleeting, but Hell is an eternity. Hell becomes the more so the longer one lives it.

Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what we desire to do, with frequently tragic results?

Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.

I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

You can learn from your health challenge what is most important and become a better human being.

...Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

You should know that there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.