Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always 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.

Remind me, Lord, of why I create things and that YOU ... you are the best of artists, put these gifts in me to share with the world.

Limp finally spoke. “Do you think you could kill a person and not get all crazy about it?

The next day I received a phone call from Mr. Pride which began, “So, I heard you won Ho of the Year.” Well when you put it like that it didn’t sound like such an accomplishment.

Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.

It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.

There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African.

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

Why can't women tell jokes? Because we marry them!

Don't say maybe if you want to say no.

She didn't know what Liam made his coffee with, but it had to be magical sparkles and crack beans, because it was the most delicious stuff she'd ever tasted.