Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

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.

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.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Hate is a strong emotion. Much more stronger than indifference. But those who burn with hate can also love just as intensely.

Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’

We need to awaken the intellectual maverick within ourselves

I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for

I think honestly, believe it or not, that Dude, Where's My Car? in a way represents its time better than almost any film made around that.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

I love you Denver Beck," she whispered. "I have for a long time." Then she stepped back. "Now it's your turn to decide if you love me.

I may not have hands to hold my wife’s hands, but I don’t need hands to hold her heart. That’s what I’m gonna hold.

Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.