If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

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.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Whatever beginning goals you set for yourself, following through on them will build momentum and a sense of achievement and those small success will point the way to bigger ones

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.

I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.

Love means never having to say you're sorry. Marriage means apologizing when you know you're right.

That's what 90 percent of the people talk about when they're first exposed to the fish.

I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks.

All joking aside, I'm a television watcher and I get frustrated with shows sometimes when they set up puzzles and then they don't give answers. It's just more questions and more questions.