Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

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.

Becoming unshakeable through this storm.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

I think I was able to survive five heart attacks because I never postponed going to the hospital when something didn't feel right.

I'm still fly, I'm sky high and I dare anybody to try and cut my wings

If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned.

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we've been evolving on this planet.

I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.

Do this research if we don't have a season -- watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game.