When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.

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.

There’s no blade in the world as sharp as rejection.

When someone is in need of healing, it is good to pray for wisdom from our Father because there may be an open door to sickness in their lives that they have not yet considered.

I'm on a roller coaster which only goes up my friend

I started modeling at 28. I'm 5-feet-7 1/2, and I never went on a diet. I followed what my doctor told me: 'It's good to have a little bit of fat. Your weight is fine. Don't go any lighter.'

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.

The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.

At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.

If you can't stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen