You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead

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.

To be great at anything that you do, you have to love it! but also give it your all..

Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is.

Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be.

It's hard to articulate what everybody else is feeling.

Sometimes you have to bite the bullet. Not only must you learn to accept their gaze with your eyes but also with your heart.

Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.