Those women like to see their tongues dance.

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 strength of individual greatness makes a great team.

The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that.

I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

All typefaces are historical.

You're frozen when your heart's not open.

We've fallen into a fin-de-siecle period of crisis in which people believe only the things they see right in front of them

I can never tell a joke, I've always found it easier to just fall over.

I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.