How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?

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.

Witnessing is not flowing with the current of the river but observing the flow from the bank of the river.

That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

New Jersey gives us glue.

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED.