You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

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.

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature

The impossible is possible in your mind and in your dreams.

I need you, lass, " he whispered. Darcy opened her eyes to find him over her. "How fast can you get out of those clothes?

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it.

I've enjoyed every minute of travelling and playing for my country. What an honour that is.

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

I always say you need something weird on your face and some good shoes and nobody looks in the middle.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

I don’t know if you have a child, but what the Chinese government want people to see is like you would want a child to see. Because every film shown in China is one that a child could see.