We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

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.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

To see the positive or not to see the positive, this is the question.

Five years back, I dreamed of me being what I am today.Five years later, I dream of me being what I am in future.Now, is the true version of me between my history and mystery....

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised, it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected.