Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

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.

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.

When snow melts, what does it become?' It becomes water, of course' Wrong! It becomes spring!

Sometimes we remember onlywhen we see the pass, and the pass is remember when our eyes are open

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.