I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

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.

You can’t change the past. It’s already done. Looking back only keeps you there.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.

When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.

Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

You're always going to face a little bit of criticism from time to time.

What is the ultimate purpose of life? It's to give.

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

Theres really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.

When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.