The great thing about my life is that everything I've done is a result of what I was when I was 12 or 13.

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 painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

We're talking really huge global-scale change, and I did not feel that I had the prescription for that kind of action, so I'm going to leave it to the reader.

Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.

the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it!

Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a rose.

Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:Those who are free from anger are free from death.

There is no one best way for parents to become the parents they want to be just as there is no one best way for a child to grow into a contented and contributing member of society.

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.