You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.

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.

It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it's real?

Love starts having troubles when the brains encroaches on its territory

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

I do pauses, pauses work for me

It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.

After-sales service is more important than assistance before sales. It is through such service that one gets permanent customers.

it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime