If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

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.

Can't abide adventure. 'Adventure' is a word people use to put a shine on lack of preparation and surviving through dumb luck.

To nourish a tree you must get to the roots, the same is true if you must uproot it.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

One with God is a majority.

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

Christian Deodorant: "Thou Shalt Not Smell"

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.

I like to have everything smiley and happy for my husband. Men don't want to see a grumpy face at the end of a hard day.

How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.