What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

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.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray

I’m a nobody telling everybody about Somebody who can save anybody.

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance

I don't understand racism. I have many black friends and many others have been my opponents. Respect is basic. Unfortunately racism is a social problem, and football belongs to society.

You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective.

I do know what my first meal in the next world would be Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.

The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.