Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

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.

In The End We Are Our Choices_nickc

PEOPLE WITH THE SMARTEST MOUTHSHAVE THE DUMBEST BRAINS

She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.

An Englishman thinks seated a Frenchman standing an American pacing an Irishman afterward.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

People who take photographs during their whole vacation won't remember their vacation. They'll only remember what photographs they took.

I never cease to be thrilled when entering my own gateway... and always feel that entrance gardens should give the first sensation of rest to those returning home.

At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

I imagine the world from my window ... Traveling, I think it's a nightmare today. The airports and things the people in the street with the selfies ... I like to stay at home and read.

Today, when you combine the web with the iPad, you have the most advanced medium for human thought and communication ever created.