This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.

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.

I feel like a quote out of context.

I don't think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

Our blood don't run. Sometimes we want to. Sometimes we ought to. But we don't ever run from anyone or anything.

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

I was the happiest man in the world, happier than Bill Gates

This is who I am Escapist Paradise Seeker Farewell, time to fly Out of sight Out of time Away from all lies

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.