Surprise is where creativity comes in.

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.

Fear is the poison that erodes resolve. And fear is not without a killer of its own. Hope.

The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.

In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.

If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable?

Men to whom God is dead worship one another.

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

[The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the matter, energy, space, and time of the cosmos.

God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down.

Because it’s our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.