I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under 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.

I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.

My anxiety house a house and a fence and a deer in the yard. A zip code. A plague of starlings.

I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.

We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he is no longer within the law.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.

Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has.

The object of government is the welfare of the people.