For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.

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 was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before. ~Katherine Demure

Proceed with caution when you befriend a writer, for if you fall out of their good graces they have the delightful capability of doing any number of dastardly things to you upon the written page.

Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.

Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to do that. I always think of looking inside an Easter egg and seeing a perfect world.

I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.

I was only given this life because I'm strong enough to live it.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.