I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

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.

Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.

That's when it hit me. I had to go through a lot of bad relationships first, but I'd finally found him. My very own Prince Charming. Turns out they do exist.Touché, Cinderella. Touché.

An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.

At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!

My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.