If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing.

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.

The moment you vote, you are a citizen. But moment you make your vote public, you are a politician.

Well, enough of this introspection. It’s depressing, quite frankly.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

I always had dreams. I knew I wanted to have money to buy things at the flea market. That's worked out well.

If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.

My books have all generated controversy.

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

Nobody should be owning a gun which does not have a sporting purpose.

Society of thinking men! This kind of society has only one destiny: To Rise!

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell