I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

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.

He who risks nothing has nothing.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.

Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.

Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.

I guess I like to find the rhythm in things.