You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

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.

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool

Jack shall have Jill.Nought shall go ill.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

One can always learn from others. The Champion's Mind holds a wealth of insight as to how you can become a winner in your everyday life.

All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your faith and your hope accompany me.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness. Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.