Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

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.

The LORD GOD is a shelter from the heat.The LORD GOD is a refuge from the storm.

One of the most common areas where we fail is when we begin to think that genetic make-up of a person determines how far he can lead". Leadership is learnt and practiced!

I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.

Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.

Most things get better by themselves. Most things, in fact, are better by morning.

Never stray from the Way.

Every woman wants and needs different things. It's always best when you're honest and you speak up. It's hard to read minds.

Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things.

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it.