Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

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.

What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I’d better figure out what I rubbing up against.

The spiritual soul is sacred.

Price ain't merely about numbers. It's a satisfying sacrifice.

If the creation is separated from the creator, the creation will die

My work makes me a better mom. It gives me a little door to step out of my parenting and bring the excitement from my day back home.

This warning from the New York City Department of Health Fraud: Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his finger.

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.