I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.

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 honestly think that depression, unhappiness or the feeling of emptiness is more a lack of amazement about life than anything else.

There's no such thing as a problem that's yours and not mine.

You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.

You cannot advance if you cannot visualize the end from the start.

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

A top aide to Donald Trump says he quit the campaign this weekend because of Trump's public feuds, but Trump said he was fired. When asked what he was fired for, Trump said, 'Quitting!'

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.