"Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?"
Neil Gaiman
"I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford."
Philip Guedalla
"Only those who'd changed could see things from a different point of view."
Anonymous
"As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about."
Milan Kundera
"There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours."
Anonymous
"[..] when we get down to the subatomic level, the solid world we live in also consists, again rather worryingly, of almost nothing and that wherever we do find something it turns out not to actually something, but only the probability that there may something there."
Douglas Adams
"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
Epictetus
"I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place."
Donald Davis
"As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves."
Paul Russell
"When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us."
Swami Dhyan Giten
"One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions."
Pamela Meyer
"The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet."
Derek Thompson
"Sincerity is moral truth."
George Henry Lewes
"The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'."
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