Life is about trying things to see if they work.

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.

When men at forward fail to achieve the goal, they describe the victory lies in defending.

It's not about how long you can live, it's about how long you can forget and forgive.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

The rise of King Crimson was so fast that, to me, it felt as if it was going out of control. And it was going so fast that I couldn't keep up with what was happening.

They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.

Moses, who said when the Red Sea parted, What the hell was that? I was just going in for a dip! Never got a dinner!

I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.