I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good.

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.

I'm stuck in between a nightmare and lost dreams

You are likely to lose the heat of your passion irrespective of how hot it was when you surrender yourself to a leader with lukewarm attitude.

Your inner light is your inner power.

Drop everithing and read.

The miracle lies in the newness of a morning.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

What does God want me to do with the resources, time, and talents He has given me?

Shirts don't grow on trees.

Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.