You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

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.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

The heart will rest and feel relief if it is settled with Allah. And it will worry and feel anxious if it is settled with the people.

You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times of Willie Donaldson.

In high school there were so many Jennifers, I had all sorts of names, including Jo-Jen, Jenna, Jenna-Bean, and Jenny A.

It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

You really have got lots of issues! Yeah, of 'What Car Magazine'!

How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?

Little rabbits have big ears.

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.