Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

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.

There lives a man, who is too small for his own brain." ‪#‎iampm‬

Because every story is a ghost story, even mine.

Expectations is the mother of all negative energies within in you...

Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

Let's get unemployed Americans off the welfare and back to work in their own country.

Donald Trump is seriously dark and disturbing. You can't just dismiss it as one more example of American pop culture grotesque.

Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.

Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see.

It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.

Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.