Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.

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.

You can tell I have kids right? Just so I don't break out into a Barney tune here in three minutes.

It's not that your most important work is meaningless; it's that your most trivial movements are also significant.

Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.

I'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

I've dabbled in several different religions.

True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; And all else is tow'ring phrenzy and distraction.

And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

If I did better... I'd be God.

Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.