I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.

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.

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.

There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.

Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid.

Truth cannot be changed. When all the flowers of the world are dead, there will still be a true thing that is a flower.

Reader, I married him.

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral.

Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind.

When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.

I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future.