How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

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.

To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.

Fear is faithlessness.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

The black­est des­pair that can take hold of any soci­ety is the fear that liv­ing hon­estly is futile.

Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction.

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

Dark master of sin, now my soul is yours.

Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.

I've learned to love my brown eyes.