I started writing every day. I never stopped.

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.

They are rich who have true friends.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless.

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

I do not believe in the beauty of falling.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

The most important thing here is to largely ignore what customers say, and instead watch what they do or track where they spend money.