Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

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.

It is easy for anybody to call himself or herself a “Christian” but the truth is we respond from very different world-views

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own.

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.

Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.

The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.

Focus equals feeling.