Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

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.

One size may fit all, but no footprint is the same. The right path for you may be a few steps to the left.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.

What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life.

Do you remember when we were kids and played that game 'Telephone'? It was like that. The first time I heard about it, someone said he'd been shot 17 times.

I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is death.