Look for the little loves. Find and shape the little bitternesses.

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.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

Goldie Hawn has always been a beauty and fashion icon to me. She radiates joy and infuses beauty into everything through her smile and spirit. She is a great example of what real beauty means to me.

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.