The terrible tyranny of the majority.

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.

Sometimes not getting what you want is God's greatest blessing.

As long as you are waiting for something to make you happy — happiness will never come.

After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

Never give up and never conform.

A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.

What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.

Its very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.

Adulthood has something to do with not choosing any of the pure points of view, but living about half of what you really want to live.

Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.