I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.

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 purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?

People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.

I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.

I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.