You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

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.

God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to changeGive me strength to change what I canAnd give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Most people are not for or against anything the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow to overcome inertia.

I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

If you asked me, 'What do you want to say?' it would be, 'Love yourself more.'

The winner of the first point is the loser of the last.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

My boyfriend was insanely sexy, vampire or not, and I couldn't keep my hands off him.

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.