Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

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.

The beautiful thing about young love is the truth in our hearts that it will last forever.

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

Give yourself a set period of time to grieve and heal before focusing on financial matters.

Miranda Writes: Anything you say or do may be used for or against you within a story by a writer

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra.

That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.