If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

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.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

Try something new out of your comfort zone. If you lose you will get an experienced, and If you win you will get an achievement.

Speak less and listen more.

How can we fully appreciate the redemption Jesus performed unless we fully understand from what we were redeemed?

I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colours is black.

I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.

I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

I don't know [what things are forever]. Friendship. I can think of lots of things.

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.