The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

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.

you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!

You can't let the past ruin your future, I changed over in my mind.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.

Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.

All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.

I did all the Chef Boyardee commercials, in America, when I was young.

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.