What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

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.

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?

I dislike both of [candidates] but there's obviously no choice in the election - if you're concerned about the future of anything, you need to vote for Hillary Clinton.

as long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing.

Remember, in the end, it isn't what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!

It never occurs to me that I'd be intimidating to anybody. Maybe I should consider that.

In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

Why can't we resist the urge to second-guess and evaluate each other?...Sometimes I wonder if the final judgment will be a breeze compared with what we've put each other through here on earth. p 225

Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am