Write. Don't think. Relax.

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.

Breath with awareness is prana. Breath without awareness is just air.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night.

Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.

We'll all be better off the day we stop letting unhappy, unsuccessful people tell us how to be happy and successful. You already know the way... follow it.

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

Panic is our great enemy.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.