Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

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 present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.

Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.

Truly different behaviors require truly distinct situations.

I love yoga. I don't do it as much as I'd like to, but I feel wonderful when I do.

Hearts don't often break even. One person is usually more hurt while the other is more relieved.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.