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

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

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

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn’t believe in you and your future, to hell with them.

Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

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.

Good to evil seems evil

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

Creativity is a continual surprise.

You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.

If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

You fail only if you stop writing.

You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

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

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.

He who gives early gives twice.

The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can’t jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.

Motivation comes from effort.

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you’ve got.

People get so caught up in the fact that they have limits that they rarely exert the effort required to get close to them.

Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.