Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

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.

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river.

Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!

That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.

No way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand.

Preparedness never caused a war and unpreparedness never prevented one.

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

As soon as you start talking about Scouting, there's an immediate connection and brotherhood.

I use different media, but I still think as a painter. I organize my forms and colors on a screen like a painter does on a canvas.

Art is most effective when concealed.