I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

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.

...Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

The discipline of singing early music has a special sound - (it's) very clear.

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

You've got to learn from your mistakes. And not do them again.

India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.