I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

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 darkness is at its darkest, a star shines the brightest.

Secretary of the treasury Albert Gallatin is accused of treason by war enthusiasts merely for suggesting budget adjustments to pay for war measures.

I know Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

Our pendants glowed in unison and I understood that they represented us – Siren and human intertwined for eternity.

God will shout during your storms, whisper during your sunshine and sing during the rarest rainbows you will encounter.

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

If for some reason you are unsure where to go, all you have to do is stand there looking lost, and within seconds a helpful New Yorker will approach to see if you have any "spare" change.

I see too deep and too much.

God is not a luxury you can't afford; He's a necessity you truly cannot live without!

Blessed is the mind which, during prayer, is insensible to all things.