Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

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.

This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene--a moment's forgetfulness suffice.

Your belief system should be positive and empowering enough to influence a strong mental state and a positive attitude that will rise up to defeat any suggestion that you are destined to fail.

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

I think bears and worms aren't very similar... until you think of gummy.

The mind can wander while still focusing on one task.

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.

She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

His momma said, Donovan why are you, on the corner of linden and guy R. Brewer?

Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.