“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.”

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

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.

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

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.

You know you’re living right when you wake up, brush your hair – and confetti falls out!

Colonization took place in America and Australia, the two continents that, without a culture and a history of their own, had fallen into the hands of Europeans.

It’s all fun and games until your shoe strap falls down.

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.

Let No One Fall Idle.

You will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.