The most dangerous thing you can do is know who 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.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

A true lover never fails, a failure never can love.

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

Even if I am being conservative, I don't see how Obama can lose.

When The Phenoix Suns are missing two basketballs, they'll know where to look!

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.

It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.