We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

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.

I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed to.

I personally believe this: We have only today

We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.I do, Augustus. I do.

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

I grew up in and identify with and that she works and exists in.

Awareness returning home is awareness being enfolded by what it knows.

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred.

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.

We change for the good so long as good exists around us.

When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a Broadway stage at 11 years old? It's so far in the distance now.