He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

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.

No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope.

Today I choose to be kind to all and to do all I can to make this world peaceful.

Thane Ealdian prowls the earth once more. Shutter your houses. Bar your doors. Offer him gold and women to satisfy his cravings. A black dragon is like the very devil himself.

I find humans tremendously interesting

Himmler, Bormann, and Goebbels, they were probably bad fellows.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love

I'm the most carefree, happy person you'll meet.

Kenny G has a Christmas album out this year. Hey, happy birthday Jesus! Hope you like crap!

The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.