Experience does for the soul what education does for the mind.

Look back at your life. It's always the hardest times that made you who you are.

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

The biggest risk is to take no risk at all

Free time is the enemy of progress

The right time is always right now.

It's the execution that matters, never the idea.

Without a goal, you can’t score.

I didn’t know that the times we spent together on the weekends, the times that we laughed together, and the times you helped me out was your way of silently wishing me a beautiful goodbye.

I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.

God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good—and is no sillier than any other theology.

Without women, humanity will be history.

Sometimes I look back and think, "How did I write that? The book is smarter than I am!" I have never written strategically, but rather, followed the dictates of my muse.

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.

NO ONE is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

Life is a manifestation of unity.