Wisdom

Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.

You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

We're roughage,' Tyger said. 'If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there.

A Dog can never brag about catching a cat that waited for him.

For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!' (Homer Simpson).

... The invention of the mechanical clock in medieval Europe. This was one of the great inventions in this history of mankind -- not in a class with fire and the wheel, but comparable to movable type in its revolutionary implications for cultural values, technological change, social and political organization, and personality.

Its better to Convince by words rather than your Hands. We should not degrade our Standard for others. - Merlin Thomas.

The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual.

Men are not angels,” Akhmar affirmed. “And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

Wisdom of the Ages: 'The Pope and Congress' It looks as if confidence in the American voter to exorcise the demons in the Capitol has completely fallen through.

Realize that by hurting your own characters, you are not a sadist. You are not deliberately hurting your loved ones merely to watch them suffer. You’re giving a gift. You’re helping them grow and develop. Your characters take on deeper meaning to become more alive on your pages. They’ll become real.

You can't catch trout with dry breeches.

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

If therefore that which is sown be not turned upside down, and if the place where the evil is sown passes not away, then cannot it come that is sown with good?