The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

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.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

When we move in a direction that touches our heart, we add to the momentum of deeper purpose that makes us feel more alive.

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

...even the donkeys were quiet.

The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.

Back in the day I took a lot of supplements and tons of amino acids. Still do. But back then it was pretty unusual. That's how I got the nickname The Chemist.

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

Violence is the sign of temporary weakness.

I'm a golfer - not an athlete.