Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failure but as a wrong address.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.