There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

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.

The failure to readily identify the battle between good and evil is a nagging, ongoing, dangerous pattern that shows no sign of easing up any time soon.

The spirit of Hitler is not dead.

I...have been in that weird state between dreaming and waking, where dreams could be memories and the real world could be a dream.

I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.

It'd be the thrill of anyone's bull riding career to ride Red Rock. Like when Freckles Brown rode Tornado.

The coach has put a lot of trust in me to make good decisions in the post.

The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.

The Democratic Party likes to remind people that the Russian force around that was very strong, remarkably strong.

The harder I train, the luckier I get!

People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.