I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

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.

If I had been shipped off to Dalbreck, there are valuable things I never would have learned.

It’s okay to be crazy and scared and brave at the same time!

We cannot let our hurts, fears, and prejudices get in the way of God’s calling for our lives.

Listen to your body. The quality of your communication matters.

Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104)

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

I think that American salesmanship can be a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb.

The election moment is merely the American public saying, "We'd rather you be President than that guy." That's it.

It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.