If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

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.

You are actually reproducing yourself when you invest your life.

If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent.

Republican Party hasn't been black friendly over the many centuries in this country.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

Say hello to your life.

Keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise.

There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.

We're very focused in on outcomes for government with respect to the amount of tax that goes in and the amount of expenditures that go out.