The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.

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.

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.

Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.

When I go to dance clubs, I always dance with big girls, so we finish at the same time.

You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

Once I got in the public eye there was no going back.