We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.

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.

If he loved me, he couldn't kill me.

If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently

When you think you're seeing something, what you need to find out is, 'Is that true?

There's always time for one more pint. - Chief Inspector Morse

There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.

And speaking of females, if I call you by one's name while my fangs are plunged deep in your neck, just run with it.

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

There are many things that were harder to discuss back in the 80's and early 90's than they are now, and this also works the opposite way for other things.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

Nine months of misery.