I don't believe in colleges and universities.

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.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

I just wanna thank all those amazing Internet bloggers out there that hate me day-to-day. I love you! You rock!

The beauty of it is that we have to content ourselves with the recognition of the miracle, beyond which there is no legitimate way out.

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

I'm not leaving you if you don't leave me.

There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.

After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

The only thing that's changed for me is that I've figured out a new way to do this; when I go to record, I like to do the drums last, if that makes any sense to you.

I'm an advocate for change and eager to break a little glass when needed.

The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits!