Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

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.

Don't be afraid to let it go. Releasing hate does not make you forget what you want always to remember. It does not mean reconciliation.

Only the wool of present will knit the sweater of memories that will keep you warm in the winter of your life.

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.

Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.

Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

We are masters because we have the power to create and to rule our own lives.

We exist solely because we have a body and a mind ? a mind that arises out of the body. If this were true, we would cease to exist after our body was gone.