You fail only if you stop writing.

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.

Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.

On the occasion of yoga day, I want to offer you the simplest form of yoga: Namaskar - Yoga for all.

By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.

Plato's world of ideas is beautiful.

My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.

I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it.

Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.