Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

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.

But now with young kids – there are so many more nerds.

What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.

I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat

Being able to draw Batman was 100% of my decision to sign with DC.

Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"

Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

God will never send anything your wayyou couldn’t handle.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.