If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.

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.

Your future will be determined not by your education or bank account, but by your optimism and attitude.

That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out.

19. All possibilities I will attemptAnd as I am here now, Knowing what I know now, I have faith in myselfThat I will succeedAnd I will succeed.And I will succeed.

Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

Life is one long jubilee.

I would never deny that Jack Nicklaus is the greatest player who ever lived.

Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don’t like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths.

I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain.

My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.

Don't touch my muscles