Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

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.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

I always take my time when picking out outfits at home, but I will say I can change pretty quick when I'm in a hurry.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.

I don't like kicking the ball a lot.

One can only imagine how effective justice might be if admissible in a court of law.