Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

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.

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.

Basically, dating is like climbing a volcano and you never know when it's going to erupt, dumping molten lava and burning you

I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know.

I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

Learn to breathe, learn to speak, but first... learn to feel.

I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks like. That'd be really weird!

What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.