The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

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.

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

In running back and forth among the things that might be important, we forget to spend enough time on what really is important.

Action is within your control, while Emotion is beyond your control!

Some presters might tell you never to question, but that is tantamount to telling you not to think. Odun created us to explore, to experience. There is no harm in asking questions…

By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles, " noted Will. "Has no one respect for the classics these days?

Nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children. What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it.

You don't gossip while your man is driving. You sit there quietly until you're about 5 minutes from your destination then you say, would you like some road head?

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.

Obamacare is a disaster, folks.

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.