For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.

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 is easy to have love affairs than to solve math problems but it is easy to learn if you trust God

'Ah John A. John A. how I love you! How I wish I could trust you!

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.

I don't care if someone remembered me. Life is for living and memories for those who we leave behind.

Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.

Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve.