Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'

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.

It's useless to disarm the hands, if the heart remains armed

I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.

Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.

Certain travelers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.

Intelligence doesn't just mean tracking down terrorists; It means finding out what is in people's hearts and minds and discovering the complexity of most issues.

There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived in an environment that was very threatening.

Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.

If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.

When you're leading, don't talk.