You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

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.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

Everything about us was entirely normal, really. We were as ordinary as anything we might come across in this world.

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

I'm a staple in my city, you can never ruin me.

I have no plans to run for president.

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

To me, I think the core values that will help create the world that we're striving to live in are constant.

The reward of eternal life requires effort.