The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

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.

Beware! Friends are like chameleons, for they can turn enemies overnight.

The sacred moment is splendid.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

You help someone's health, and you prevent them from infecting others.

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

What you have at the moment you have attracted by the person you have become.

Sir, if you don't pay this bill by the close of business on Friday; we will be forced to disconnect your service.

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.