If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

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.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

This is why you shouldn’t hire your friends. It’s all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed.

That’s the problem with following all the rules—somebody else is eventually going to get ahead by breaking them, and then where will you be?

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

Stan said he used to keep Hardy late, make him miss his golf game, and really get him mad.

Simple is the only way I can write.

All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become, because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.