See the world: It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
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.
Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.
If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don’t.
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper’s Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn’t, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.
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.
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.
We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
If someone sends you a love letter you’ve got to answer back.
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.