Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

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.

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.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

I'm willing to grind, endure & suffer to wake that beast within me, to grow, accomplish & win.

I guess that’s the way secrets are. They’re only heavy when you’re holding them. As soon as you let go, the significance of keeping those secrets hidden blows away and everything falls into place.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.

But mostly I think two people do share a moment, and we all know that feeling, and it can put a spring in your step for the rest of the day.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.