We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.

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.

Back from where? you're not going out again and leaving me here are you?? Holy Hercules I sound like somebody's wife

When my children were little, always I had to explain things.Now they don't ask much more, have I become more stupid?

What was it about this infuriating woman that reduced him to a twelve-year-old at the pool?

Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.

The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

My whole career has been an act of revenge.

I always knew, from the very day of my own mutilation, that I would one day fight against this practice. I did not know how and when, but I knew that I would fight it.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.