I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

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.

[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.

Here is the thing about Donald Trump. Donald Trump is hitting a nerve in this country.

After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.

If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility.

Gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.