How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.

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.

When we overemphasise miracles we underplay values.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

I am always locked in my design studio.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

As an actor, you have no control really.

Talabani and Al-Maliki want to keep their seats for ever. Talabani forgets that the side which brought him to power was the United States and it brought him by rigging the elections.

There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.

We have many Lisas, Marks, Dennys, Johnnys, and other characters from 'The Room' in America and in the entire world.