But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

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.

Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.

Trust yourself, because society always corrupt our confidence.

Perception is reality to the one in the experience.

Will you come with me?""Ah, Kestrel, that's something you never need to ask.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

I am tired before the concert not afterward.

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

It's good to see that America has a hub for electronic music in Vegas, like Europe has with Ibiza.

I only went to school up until the beginning of tenth grade and I think that's when my style was developing.