I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.

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.

When I hug you, I feel like I am hugging the universe of joy, and I emerge with the ecstasy of life.

Do Dragons eat Mexican?" Hank wondered out loud."Dude, they eat people. Mexican is a vast improvement over people.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

My only hope lies in my despair.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss

A man that runs away may fight again.

A hug is the perfect gift, one size fits all, everyone likes them and no-one cares if it is given back.

Even vegetables have feelings in our world.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.