So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

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.

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.-Isabel Culpeper

The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes to creative work, limitations mean freedom.

Anyone who is swift to blame someone else has simply ran out of ideas.brimekonsult

Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are

Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year.

Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed.

I'd like to sing songs that are mellower. I don't want to be screaming when I'm 60.

I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.