He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

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.

I made a noise of disgust, and I think I would have stormed out if I knew how to open the door.

When I saw snooty guy, I missed my childhood.

I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.

The post office says they're raising the price of stamps by one cent because they need to upgrade their equipment. Apparently, they're going from semi-automatics to uzis.

That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.

I stick to the script, I memorize the lines, cause life is movie that I've seen too many times.

To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.

I am a great admirer of women.

The moment you stop learning you're dying.

Being patted is what it is all about.