It could reach up and grab the moon.

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.

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a feedbag.

We are taking way more out of the ocean than the ocean can replenish.

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.

Bless your heart, they don't mind--they're exceedingly kind-- They don't blame you--as long as you're funny!

When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.