I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.

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.

Yeah. Of course I can do simple math. I graduated high school, ya know.”“What an accomplishment. No one has ever done that before.

Military life is hard, even cruel—especially for the kids.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.

Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.

The senator got so tired on the campaign trail that he started kissing hands and shaking babies.

An endangered planet may depend on the evolution of consciousness.

Marriage is something that should be tried at least once. It's educational.

Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.

Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself.