First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

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.

The treasures of life are hidden in a book.

Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew how easy it was to cheat the tests.

I go to the ocean to say goodbye.

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.

I don't throw things or yell.

Love is healing. Love is comforting. Love is holy. Food can be all those things, too.

What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone

I just feel out of this world sometimes.

It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.