Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

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 future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

The Infinite struck the void with the sound of the Word.

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys.

Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Oh great. Yoda captured us.

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human

Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.