Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks...

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.

As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.

The First Amendment contradicts the First Commandment.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Simply switching to a healthy, plant-based diet can lessen stroke risk by reducing cholesterol and blood pressure, flooding your body with antioxidants and improving blood flow.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

As a person, the only people who matter are my kids and how they see me.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

Everyone is broken a little, I think, and the most broken of all are those who pretend they are not.

This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire.