Stuff your eyes with wonder.

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.

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Writing a song is a long road. Or it can be.

There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.

I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.

I haven't been unfaithful, well only when I was younger!

Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.

Right before the explosions begin, I find a star.