Most of my short stories are fantasy.

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.

Begin to invest quality time. Start the conversion process and birth your products.

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp

Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.

Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power.