Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

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 is necessary to write out in details what you need to do everyday in regards to your purpose and calling

You are not your outer appearance, and you are not your body

The least effort is the feat most likely to be accomplished.

We [journalists] tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.

They say they have noticed me drawing. I almost tell them right then and there. They noticed.

Early numbers are always wrong.

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.