If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget 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.

...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.

Widespread justification formulate the most significant obstacles on the way to achieving a dream

If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.

All the little birdies had flown out of this man's tree.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.