The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

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.

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

This is eternity, Antanasia, " he said, both warning and imploring. "Eternity.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

When the stock market crash, a lot of people realized that the American dream was not all it was cracked up to be. They'd been living for this thing and it was kind of a façade. It wasn't real.

The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.

My voice sucks. I don't like the tone.

I must beware of the photo, get what I can of it and then go.