There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

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.

It does not matter when you begin and end the journey. What matters is your willpower to begin and ability to complete the sacred journey.

I wish you couldn't figure me out, but you'd always want to know what I was about

Even the simple act of tuning the radio to a music program can lift our spirits and show the world "I'm not going to give up.

All hurt is brain hurt.

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

My family isn't posh; they're musicians.

I was playing like a rugby league player with 14 rugby players.

There is so much left of it to explore.

We don't pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.

Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.