I was not predicting the future, I was 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.

If you commit then struggle to fulfill it at any cost otherwise regret it.

I never cease to wonder at my luck in having for my sister the woman who, more than any other woman in America, possesses all the qualities of true greatness.

INTENTIONS - ACTION = SQUAT

I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.

I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.

Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor.

Do nothing but be prepared to do anything.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere.

A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.