Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

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 first FIFA Women's World Cup . For me, to see how I have reacted to this tournament...I'm totally in.

I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.

The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be.

Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.

We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.

Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.

Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn't they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is not the same.

I'm sorry. It's my fault. How do I make it right?

Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.