Evil has only the power we give it.

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.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

Then we see that the same God is within ourselves.

Another tea-time, another day older.

I want to thank everybody, all my fans in Israel, all the children, everybody, it's amazing.

In the '60s and '70s, people didn't pay a lot of attention to gangs. I think gangs still existed, but gangs had fallen out of criminological favor.

I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

I get up, because I’m supposed to, but if it were up to me, I’d stay in my seat for the rest of time.