Facts are not interesting to me.

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.

We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.

and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring

There is already enough chattering nonsense on the ground. Do we really need aviaries in pressurised tin cans at 30, 000 feet as well ?

Been there, done that, seen it, heard it, pissed on it.

The Mississippi is not the only river. There's the Tallahatchie and the Big Black. People have been put in the river year after year, these things been happening.

Wake up early everyday so that while others are still dreaming, you can make your dreams come true.

Poetry is the memory of language

As a kid, I loved to play centerfield. I loved to make diving catches.

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.

Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.