Digression is the soul of wit.

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.

And too soon Marred are those so early Made.

If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.

It scored a direct hit on my eardrum and rattled around in side my head

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.