Joy is the grace we say to God.

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.

Surrender to your fear so you may triumph over it.

It doesn’t take long for your fortunes to turn. One second you’re fluttery as a bird, the next you’re on the ground with your wings clipped.

[God] created us free to choose how we would live . . . but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences.

How cinematic of an entrance that was.

Know that your soul can do whatever you want it to do, because you're not your body

There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.

They say music can alter moods and talk to you.

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you.

I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.