Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

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.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

One is punished most for one’s virtues.

My Google-fu is strong.

Sometimes an adventure is a mundane thing. A trip to the shore with your best friend. Learning you can laugh in unearthly ways.

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader can do in front of his people is murmur and complain.

I'm a huge fan of The Sopranos, and suddenly, you find yourself going one-to-one with this guy who you've been watching for years, watching every flicker in his eye and every detail on his face.

I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside.