Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

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.

Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence.

The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.

It feels good to be awake, knowing others are asleep. Makes you feel like the night is not for everyone, just a chosen few.

Every man - at least once in his lifetime - has visited the silent and dark street of disappointment.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

My cradle was a shoe.