You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

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.

Happiness is one of your core entitlements on earth

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

Atari is a very sad story.

I don't get money from the vitamins that I make. My after tax profits go to a foundation that supports integrative medicine.

People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.

I've been touring now since about '68. I was in Germany when the wall came down. Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

There's backlash about everything I do.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.