You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.

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.

You are never left out from the experience of love. You can always give and receive love right from where you're at. It's always up to you.

Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing.

Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?

Stars don’t have their own light to glint. It is supplied by sun by burning self. One endures pain for others to survive.

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

friendship was always contingent.

Show me a woman with a subscription to a bridal magazine and I'll show you someone who doesn't even have a boyfriend.

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate