When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

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.

Sacred soul radiates inner light.

If we hug, we have tender heart towards each other.

Meditation alone cannot heal the world, but it can and does speed up the healing process.

She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.

Senses will lie as dreams wake. You are not on solid ground. Don't look down.

Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..."

But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.