Wisdom

It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done.

All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights the world will be a better place. We are better off when women are empowered – it leads to a better society.

Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

What is true today may be false tomorrow, and true again the day after tomorrow.

Of course. You get everything from books.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

In some way the god had to be appeased and satisfied; for his worshipers had made him in the image and dream of themselves, and he had no great regard for human life, or womanly tears.

Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.

Movies aren't scare, they are part of the scary stuff. But the scary thing is the truth, what more scary than that??What will happen if you understand what you eat now, what you drink?? You get disadvantages??...You don't want to make you look negative side, do you?

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and again - the wholeness of the human experience.

Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

What matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand.

It is human to err but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this.