If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

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.

I've had dreams - there were three things I wanted to do during my career. I did them during my first year of Grand Prix.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.

Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.

The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!

If you can't beat them. Join them

Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.