Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.

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.

The true beauty of your life can only shine when your decisions and actions are in line with your true positive self.

I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

I would spend my nights at home but if it means contention. I'd rather be alone tell the service man cut the phones.

Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.

I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

I prefer just being with people I like. That's my way of celebrating.

behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.

I can see thru mountains watch me disappear, I can even touch the sky. Swallowing the colors of the sounds I hear, am I just a crazy guy? You bet.