You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!

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.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something."

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

At the beginning, all we have is the vision. At that point God expects us to begin walking in obedience according to the dream He has given us.

I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.

Life is but an endless series of experiments.

It is said in sporting circles that great players leave the game a year too early rather than a year too late.

As a quarterback, I've been the guy that people were yelling for; I've been the guy that's been booed in my own stadium.

Consider an enemy may become a friend.

What I'm saying so badly is we're bred now to believe we're in control and should be in control.