In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.
Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.
Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.
All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.
The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.
One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.
Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future. We know only that it is something dynamic - unlike many ideas that have governed us.
I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.
Over the years I've learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.
I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.