I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

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.

God's love grounds me while His mystery confounds me. He is a personal yet all-powerful

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence.

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.

My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.

You can see the true heart of a man when you're out in the woods with a weapon

Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace

I feel like I went from being a boy to being a man, in some respects, through the help of Dustin Hoffman.