The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

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.

Confidence is not arrogance.

Victory is a good wine

Is death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening.

Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality!

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.

Colin Singleton’s distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.

Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays!

The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.