What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.

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 do not read for I have renounced life, I read because one life is just not enough for me.

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

The most beautiful thing in the world is to live each second as if it were your last.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.