The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

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.

Your true personality is not the outer you but the inner you not the person you present to the world but the person you hide from the world

I am emotional about engines, if you hurt my car, you hurt my heart.

Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.

I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away.

The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.

We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

What matters in life is not so much what happens to us, but what happens in us