It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious.

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.

There is no color to known to beauty except elegance.

As long as we love happiness will be our constant companion.

Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.

The mad have a grace all their own".

I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

Time - the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.

Be unrelenting. If you don't believe, then who will?