“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

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

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

All education is self-discovery.

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

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

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

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.

Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle.

If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.

Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.

To live is to be slowly born.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.