It was a pleasure to burn.

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.

Peace’s gravitational force – a force of possibility!” from Cinderella In Focus

If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.

Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking.

Shoulders are from God and burdens too.

I think women in general like men that don't give them the thing that we want. We want a chase.

The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.