The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

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.

Sometimes God calms the storm and sometimes He calms his child.

There is an innate and strong desire in every human being to be heard.

To live without a body!

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind.