That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.

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.

God is the distance between light and darkness.

The grass is not 'greener' on the other side – it is just another shade of green.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

In America they had no chance - I knocked them all cold in America

An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.

I think I'm one of the patches of the quilt here, myself and Dwyane.

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.