I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

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.

[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]

Revenge is a business of calculation, best served cold. Rescue holds more of sacrifice, suicidal danger, and all manner of other madness that should have me running in the opposite direction.

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

My great grandmother was Chinese .

When love itself comes to kiss you, don't hold back!

I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. [Thorn]