Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.

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.

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief

The ostrich-approach of burying your head in the sand, when confronting your areas of weakness, becomes a self-set trigger for failure.

Meditation is the conscious effort towards altering our subconscious mind

Feeling that one has some leverage upon something, even by proxy or association, makes one a great deal more interested in it.

Start enjoying the things you like about yourself, and if there are things you want to change, either get to work on it or get over it.

Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.

Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.

Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

I thought it was excellent, to tell you the truth.