Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

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.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

You haven't taught until they've learned.

I'm a huge candy fan. My favorite growing up was always Sour Belts or Sour Straws.

Anybody not wearing a two-million sun block is gonna have a pretty bad day.

I like being vegan, I think it's good for my health.

The good news is that it doesn't cost much money to change your thinking. In fact, it can be done for free.