“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

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.

I do a first draft as passionately and as quickly as I can. I believe a story is valid only when it’s immediate and passionate, when it dances out of your subconscious. If you interfere in any way, you destroy it.

I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.

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.

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

You’ve been put on the world to love the act of being alive.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

If someone tells you to do something for money, tell them to go to hell.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

Just because someone loves you in the past doesn’t mean you need to keep it forever.

So many of us need so much less than we have, especially when so many of us are in need.

Who you want and who you need and sometimes two different people.

You just need a few more no’s in the day.

You don’t need everyone but just the few that will stick with you at all times.

If you want the best out of your hard work, you need to take some rest in between that journey.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

The kindness of some soul is what a broken heart needs.