Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.

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 truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

I want a return to the divorce system based on the fault of one spouse.

I used to follow trends and try to do exactly what I saw in the magazines, but I'm not a Victoria's Secret model who can wear anything.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

I think everyone's dream is to be an actress, but I never really thought it was going to happen.

Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.