It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

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.

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

I look at Breaking Bad as a show about the American family.

I'm kinda stuck in that awkward in-between stage where my hair is just starting to fall out, but I'm still maintaining my youthful acne.

Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.