May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

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.

In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied

Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!

It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincolns single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.

Feelings should be indicators, not dictators.

It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough.

Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.