Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?

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'm telling you, Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral.

you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.

Ignorance is fertile ground.

God is what you imagine him to be

To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.

Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.

My most important identity now is as a mother.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.