Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

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.

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Hold fast to your faith.Keep your hope in the Lord.Embrace the love of God.

By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout

Using someone else’s ruler to measure your self-worth will always leave you short.

Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

I don't expect never an easy match. I always expect difficult matches.

Either i've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.