The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.

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.

Hope doesn't disappoint. God is FAITHFUL to His promises. Being delayed is a part of God's plan for our lives. So don't lose hope everything will come forth at the appointed time.

I’m sure I look a wreck. But he’s the one who wrecked me so he may as well take a good long look at what he’s done.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality.

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

Together on the path of love, we can try to make a small difference in someone's life. What else is there to do?

Earth is only a pale version of heaven, not the other way around.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Obsess about the quality of the product.