Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.

...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others?

By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter, --making us think of funnier and funnier things.

We are saved to live the rest of our earthly lives not for lustful desires but for godly good works in will of God.

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets.

I'd like to jump out of an airplane, but I'm very scared of that. I will have to do it.

The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.

Once Celtic got their equaliser, they played a sort of anti-football.

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.

The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.

The Age of Northeast Asia is fast approaching.