Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.

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.

Whole worlds’ darkness is not enough to dark the blaze of a candle..

Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world.

I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.

Just remembering that they [people with eating disorder] are young, beautiful and unique and that is worth everything in this world.