I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do 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.

Then how about this: Remember Austin Gollaher, because what we do matters, even if we don't end up in history books.

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.

If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough.

Nobody is gonna love you like you.