I believe in Darwin and God together.

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.

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.