Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.

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.

It was going to be our job to annoy someone?” “I know—it’s a dream come true!

Stand alone when it is to your benefit, with others when it is to your advantage, and with everyone when it is to your empowerment.

You are the product of your own brainstorm.

I think sometimes it's hard to know what you feel, or to know what's real and what's not, because love or hate or any feeling is a belief. You can say you hate someone, but you don't truly know them.

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

Friends come and go but banners hang forever.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

Hate poisons your life.