Love is easy, and I love writing.

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.

[S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination.

Name your intention.

Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost."Um, " Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets?

The fog eventually clears itself.

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.

I believe in God; I'm not saying I'm highly religious.

I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

Like to have a catalyst - reduces dependence on the market: Distressed debt inherently has a catalyst - maturity.

I'm meeting a lot of musicians and people in the music business, and am constantly trying to figure out what I want to do with music. We'll see. I want to do everything.