Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

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.

If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.

A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.

That which enables us to know and understand aright in the things of God, must be a living principle of holiness within us.

I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.

I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.

I need to be agile because I do all my own stunts.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.