I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.

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 real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

Trust life. Trust your Creator. He will not deliver you to anything but the best.

No spiritual master who ever walked the earth has anything on you. You're the complete package, the real deal. You just don't remember it yet.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

I know that the politics around trade can be very difficult - especially in an election year.

We need to get out of this fetid pusshole and get to some higher ground.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

If something needed to be written, if something needed to be polished, needed to be re-written, I was just handed pages.

For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to a degree.

The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness...