My business is to prevent the future.

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.

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.

Man alone measures time.Man alone chimes the hour.And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures.A fear of time running out.

When I say love, I mean love.

Our beliefs about our abilities and the capabilities we have are usually the limiting reactants in the chain reaction of our lives.

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen

We have to continue at a high level and make them take tough shots.

I believe we all share a responsibility to build a healthier, more just and prosperous world.

I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

Only silence communicates the truth as it is.