I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

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.

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.

Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

It started as a hobby when I was a kid, and I'm finishing as a hobby.

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Being is an issue for one.

Have you ever wanted to put your head in a blender and turn on the liquefy switch? (Tate)