You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

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.

An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation.

All great literature is one of two stories

If we do not accept our challenges and remain in our comfort zone, then we undergo degradation

By doing extraordinary things you are contributing to create a better world. Memorable should be the new usual…

Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff.

Always the tone of surpise.

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.