Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

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.

There's something in everyone only they know.

We all men want a bad girl friend, but a good wife.

An angel kissed my strings, while I slept last night. And her rhythm broke my hunger. And I died a little less.

Be proactive not reactive, for an apparently insignificant issue ignored today can spawn tomorrow's catastrophe.

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and inhumane. But as a business it worked.

My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it.

Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.

I love Los Angeles. It has a lot to offer culturally and has amazing restaurants.

If we decide, we can change the pitiable condition of Indian economy. We have to take up the responsibility and show commitment.

Many of the ideas of Sun Tzu and Mao Zedong came naturally to the young Ho Chi Minh, who would probably have applied the same strategy even had he not been aware of them.