Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

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.

Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive

I go towards him and put my hands on his face and I kiss him. “What do you feel, Holden?”He looks into my eyes. “You, ” he says. “I feel you.

The true poetic feeling is a feeling of boundless gratitude.

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, / And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.

I believe people instinctively know that about writing, yet people get confused about that when it comes to acting.

When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.

Cycling to work is an important issue for business - the more who do it, the more our communities will support it. Healthy and green, cycling is worthy of the support of every business in the land.

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year.