The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

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.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

A little tranquil lake is more significant to my life than any big city in the world

Old foxes want no tutors.

I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside.

Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously.

We are powerful magical beings.

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf.

I don't really care about the GOPs or the Democratic Party. My point is the people, giving the people truth.