We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)

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.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

This is the idea that has made me...an anonymous figure in America...If you have children here tonight...they are NOT special.

Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.

I don't care about crime, I just want to get the guns.

Build a wardrobe rather than focusing on trends.

The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

I don't have much of an organization at all. I listen to my heart.