It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

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.

Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.

Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

All coincidences are Odd. That's what makes them coincidences.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

I plan on having parties when I’m 30. I plan on having fun when I’m old. Any notion of THE BEST years comes from clichéd ‘should haves ‘if I’d’ ‘wish I’d’

You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years.