There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

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.

God dances with the outcast.

I am proud of my complexion, there is always someone darker than you, thats just true Be proud your YOU.

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day.

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

I am even-tempered and emotionally well balanced

To will nothing, then, is ..looking ..for that infinite virtuosity that always enters into the game and always runs off