The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

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.

A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.

Any thing or behavior too complex to understand becomes a phenomenon that could be termed spiritual or magical.

My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see this crap movie.

I've never left a game before it ended. You never know when there could be a big turnaround in the game.