I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

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.

Your superpowers don't care who you dislike. If you are an encourager, you encourage them anyway

Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.

There was such glittering darkness in her, an endless rift straight through her core

It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

Where there is light, there is a way out of the darkness

Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.

Tunisia is always ready to turn the page.

. . . it's not just the people we love, but the people we let love us back who show us how high we can really soar.