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.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?

It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.