When one is painting one does not think.
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.
Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Don’t kill me,” he sobbed as he lay there. “Oh God, please don’t kill me. ” “If you had let me finish,” Skulduggery said, slightly annoyed, “you would have heard me say, ‘Come out, we’re not going to hurt you’. Idiot. ” “He probably wouldn’t have said idiot,” Valkyrie told the sobbing man. “We’re trying our best to be nice. ” The man blinked through his tears, and looked up. “You’re. . . You’re not going to kill me?” “No, we’re not,” Valkyrie said gently, “so long as you wipe your nose right now.
Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it. . . You can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.