I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

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.

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

If they had offered me James Bond, I probably couldn't have gone to England anymore in my life. James Bond with an accent? That would have been something.

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

When you guys win, you get to keep your money. When we win, we take your money.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

A Warrior of the Light shares with others what he knows of the path.

The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things.

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.