The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

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.

The energy everything is made of is conscious. It's alive.

Hard work is much more important than talent

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Christ is ever in the world of existence. He has never disappeared out of it.... Rest assured that Christ is present. The Spiritual beauty we see around us today is from the breathings of Christ.

Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.

Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia.

So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.