Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

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.

Every single voice—no matter how soft the peep—longs to be heard.

Your reality is based upon your beliefs.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today

People's behavior depends upon their current situation and past experience.

I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.

I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper.

The smell of gunpowder is sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Arabia.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.