It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

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.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

Unless you are silent, you will notknow your urgent heart, how it beatsbetween the thin skin of yes and no.

Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history.Atticus O'Sullivan

The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book I assure you.

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

President Obama has two years left as president. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets to appoint two new Kardashian husbands.

I close my eyes, and think of water.

People who love life have charisma because they fill the room with positive energy.

Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.

Life is a gift. Never take it for granted.