Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

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.

Grow old along with me--the best is yet to be,

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

I go out of my way to try not to be too annoying... my biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride.

Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy. Being happy makes you want to talk, to go over everything, to share it so you can remember it all over again.

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.

The path of the Warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply staying on the path.

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.