I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.

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.

I will never hurt you.I will always help you.If you are hungryIll give you my food.If you are frightenedI am your friend.I love you now.And love does not end.

The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.

The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.

Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick?

Failure hurts pretty bad. But when you got good people around you they remind you that failure is actually just a lesson. It's how not to walk so you don't fall again.

Take care of God’s creation. But above all, take care of people in need.

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.