Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

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.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

The tastiest berries are often hidden.Do not despair if you haven't found true love.Look under the leaves and branches of convention.

Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.

It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

I'm born to do music. I'm born to act. I'm born to dance and all of these things, and I will be respected.

The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.

We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.