There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

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.

You know that when your partner deletes their messages to a past lover after being accused of cheating, then it is likely that they were being unfaithful in some way.

Your highest purpose and calling is often really calling for your own healing

Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.

ISIS will be wiped out.Just off the face of the earth. This is evil.

I always try to make work that activates the viewer to be a co-producer of our shared reality.

The more you feel you are fallen; the more you fall in love with God.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?